Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.
~ Horace Mann
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.
Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.
Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.
A house without books is like a room without windows.
A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is a wrong to his family. He cheats them! Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it.
Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.
Character is what God and the angels know of us reputation is what men and women think of us.
Lost yesterday somewhere between sunrise and sunset two golden hours each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
We put things in order - God does the rest. Lay an iron bar east and west it is not magnetized. Lay it north and south and it is.
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
Lost - yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.
Evil and good are God's right hand and left.
Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.
When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.
Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.
If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.
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.
A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.
Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.
Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
