Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.

Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.

England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England.

Nothing is more dangerous than discontinued labor; it is habit lost. A habit easy to abandon, difficult to resume.

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

Now, one cannot read nonsense with impunity.