We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause.
Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.
Give me a house furnished with books rather than furniture! Both, if you can, but books at any rate!
Time is a seedfield; in youth we sow it with causes; in after life we reap the harvest of effects.
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 system of man.
It would be more honourable to our distinguished ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate them more.
False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.
After a child has arrived at the legal age for attending school,-whether he be the child of noble or of peasant,-the only two absolute grounds of exemption from attendance are sickness and death.
Observation – activity of both eyes and ears.
If there is anything for which I would go back to childhood, and live this weary life over again, it is for the burning, exalting, transporting thrill and ecstasy with which the young faculties hold their earliest communion with knowledge.
There is a deeper pleasure in following truth to the scaffold or the cross, than in joining the multitudinous retinue, and mingling our shouts with theirs, when victorious error celebrates its triumphs.
Love not only occupies the higher lobes of the brain, but crowds out the lower to make room for its expansion.
Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins.
Education is an organic necessity of a human being.
When will society, like a mother, take care of all her children?
Want of occupation is the bane of both men and women, perhaps more especially of the latter.
I look upon Phrenology as the guide to philosophy and the handmaid of Christianity. Whoever disseminates true Phrenology is a public benefactor.
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.
If temperance prevails, then education can prevail; if temperance fails, then education must fail.
Above all, let the poor hang up the amulet of temperance in their homes.