The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

There is no limit to the noble aspirations which the words "my country" may evoke.

They who will live for others shall have great troubles, but they shall seem to them small. Those who will live for themselves shall have small troubles, but they shall seem to them great.

Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.

The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know.