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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“To pity distress is but human to relieve it is Godlike. ”

“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.”

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