Liberty is the result of free individual action,energy and independence.

Those who aren't making mistakes probably aren't making anything.

Men whose acts are at variance with their words command no respect, and what they say has but little weight.

National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice.

Alexander the Great valued learning so highly, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge than to his father Philip for life.

The highest culture is not obtained from the teacher when at school or college, so much as by our ever diligent self-education when we become men.

Though an inheritance of acres may be bequeathed, an inheritance of knowledge and wisdom cannot. The wealthy man may pay others for doing his work for him; but it is impossible to get his thinking done for him by another, or to purchase any kind of self-culture.