Cultivate your garden. Do not depend upon teachers to educate you... follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own harmony.

Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.

It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.

Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

If a man is fortunate he will, before he dies, gather up as much as he can of his civilized heritage and transmit it to his children.