To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as the greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure.

I fear uniformity. You cannot manufacture great men any more than you can manufacture gold.

To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered.

Without the perfect sympathy with the animals around them, no gentleman's education, no Christian education, could be of any possible use.

Once thoroughly our own, the knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.