So multifarious are the different classes of truths, and so multitudinous the truths in each class, that it may be undoubtingly affirmed that no man ….

Forts, arsenals, garrisons, armies, navies, are means of security and defence, which were invented in half-civilized times and in feudal or despotic ….

In our country and in our times no man is worthy the honored name of statesman who does not include the highest practicable education of the people i….

It is well to think well; it is divine to act well..

Education is a capital to the poor man, and an interest to the rich man..

As each generation comes into the world devoid of knowledge, its first duty is to obtain possession of the stores already amassed. It must overtake i….

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time..

The education already given to the people creates the necessity of giving them more..

The pulpit only "teaches" to be honest; the market-place "trains" to overreaching and fraud; and teaching has not a tithe of the efficiency of traini….

Superiority to circumstances is one of the most prominent characteristics of great men..

Thank Heaven, the female heart is untenantable by atheism..

If you wish to write well, study the life about you,--life in the public streets..

School is the cheapest police..

You may as well borrow a person's money as his time..

Let but the public mind become once thoroughly corrupt, and all attempts to secure property, liberty or life, by mere force of laws written on parchm….

NO error is infused into the young mind, to lie there dormant, or to be reproduced only when the subject of thought or action recurs to which the err….

Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies of….

Astronomy is one of the sublimest fields of human investigation. The mind that grasps its facts and principles receives something of the enlargement ….

Every nerve that can thrill with pleasure, can also agonize with pain..

There is not a good work which the hand of man has ever undertaken, which his heart has ever conceived, which does not require a good education for i….

Education is an organic necessity of a human being..