It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn.

We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity.

Self-respect to be nourished in the mind of the pupil, is one of the most valuable results of a well conducted education.

If admiration were not generally deemed the exclusive property of the rich, and contempt the constant lackey of poverty, the love of gain would cease to be an universal problem.

There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.

Invisible things are the only realities; invisible things alone are the things that shall remain.

If there be such a thing as truth, it must infallibly be struck out by the collision of mind with mind.