Knowledge is a mimic creation..

Knowledge is but an instrument, which the profligate and the flagitious may use as well as the brave and the just..

Love--that divine fire which was made to light and warm the temple of home--sometimes burns at unholy altars..

Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both..

I look upon Phrenology as the guide to philosophy and the handmaid of Christianity. Whoever disseminates true Phrenology is a public benefactor..

True glory is a flame lighted at the skies..

Observation - activity of both eyes and ears..

Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care..

Schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications..

Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human nature can be worked up into invento….

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the othe….

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated..

A house without books is like a room without windows..

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity..

It is far more difficult, I assure you, to live for the truth than to die for it..

The earth flourishes, or is overrun with noxious weeds and brambles, as we apply or withhold the cultivating hand. So fares it with the intellectual ….

Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery..

Let the Common School be expanded to its capabilities, let it be worked with the efficiency of which it is susceptible, and nine tenths of the crimes….

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone ….

Had I the power, I would scatter libraries over the whole land as the sower sows his wheatfield..

Every event in this world is the effect of some precedent cause, and also the cause of some subsequent effect..