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

Spurn not at seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth; And beware of seeming truths that grow on the roots of error.

They who set an example make a highway. Others follow the example, because it is easier to travel on a highway than over untrodden grounds.

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

True glory is a flame lighted at the skies.

Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.

Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.

Evil and good are God's right hand and left.

Love must be the same in all worlds.

We do ourselves the most good doing something for others.

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

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

Time is a seedfield; in youth we sow it with causes; in after life we reap the harvest of effects.

A house without books is like a room without windows.

Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.

A teacher should, above all things, first induce a desire in the pupil for the acquisition he wishes to impart.

Willmott has very tersely said that embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children.

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

The highest service we can perform for others is to help them help themselves.

Avoid witticisms at the expense of others.

As an apple is not in any proper sense an apple until it is ripe, so a human being is not in any proper sense a human being until he is educated.

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

Education must bring the practice as nearly as possible to the theory. As the children now are, so will the sovereigns soon be.

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.

School is the cheapest police.

He who shuts out truth, by the same act opens the door to all the error that supplies its place.

It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Whatever statesman or sage will effect reforms upon a gigantic or godlike scale must begin with the young.

Republics, one after another ... have perished from a want of intelligence and virtue in the masses of the people ...

Above all, let the poor hang up the amulet of temperance in their homes.

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

As all truth is from God, it necessarily follows that true science and true religion can never be at variance.

Children learn to read by being in the presence of books.

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

He who dethrones the idea of law, bids chaos welcome in its stead.

On the face of it, it must be a bad cause which will not bear discussion. Truth seeks light instead of shunning it.

Reproof is a medicine, like mercury or opium; if it be improperly administered, it will do harm instead of good.

Injustice alone can shake down the pillars of the skies, and restore the reign of Chaos and Night.

Every school boy and school girl who has arrived at the age of reflection ought to know something about the history of the art of printing.

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

Want of occupation is the bane of both men and women, perhaps more especially of the latter.

Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal.

Be careful never to retire to rest in a room not properly ventilated.

Praise begets emulation,
a goodly seed to sow among youthful students.

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.

Observation - activity of both eyes and ears.

Knowledge is a mimic creation.

We are prone to seek immediate pleasure or good, however small, rather than remote pleasure or good, however vast.

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.

Patient perseverance in well doing is infinitely harder than a sudden and impulsive self-sacrifice.

We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital.

Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.

You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it; but let all you tell be truth.

Of all "rights" which command attention at the present time among us, woman's rights seem to take precedence.

False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.

Those who exert the first influence upon the mind have the greatest power.

But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of universal knowledge.

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

Bodies are cleansed by water; the mind is purified by truth.

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

You may be liberal in your praise where praise is due: it costs nothing; it encourages much.

To know the machine one must know where each part belongs, and what its office is.

Education is an organic necessity of a human being.

No man has the right to bring up children without surrounding them with books.

If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable.

We must be purposely kind and generous or we miss the best part of life's existence.

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

Ideality is the avant-courier of the mind.

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

Deeds survive the doers.

No combatants are so unequally matched as when one is shackled with error, while the other rejoices in the self-demonstrability of truth.

If temperance prevails, then education can prevail; if temperance fails, then education must fail.

Common sense is better than genius, and hence its bestowment is more universal.

When you introduce into our schools a spirit of emulation, you have present the keenest spur admissible to the youthful intellect.

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.

God draweth straight lines but we call them crooked.

If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.

Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.

If any man seeks greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

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

New constellations of truth are daily discovered in the firmament of knowledge, and new stars are daily shining forth in each constellation.

Thank Heaven, the female heart is untenantable by atheism.

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.

Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect.

Teaching isn't one-tenth as effective as training.

The living soul of man, once conscious of its power, cannot be quelled.

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

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

Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins.

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

There is nothing so costly as ignorance.

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen

The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it can never be made impulsive to good.

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

Habit can overcome anything but instinct, and can greatly modify even that.

We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause.

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

Love not only occupies the higher lobes of the brain, but crowds out the lower to make room for its expansion.

Schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications.