True glory is a flame lighted at the skies.
School is the cheapest police.
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it can never be made impulsive to good.
You may be liberal in your praise where praise is due: it costs nothing; it encourages much.
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.
Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws written on paper will be as vain as putting up a sign in an apple orchard to exclude canker worms.
If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.
The education already given to the people creates the necessity of giving them more.
Great knowledge is requisite to instruct those who have been well instructed, but still greater knowledge is requisite to instruct those who have been neglected.
Teaching isn’t one-tenth as effective as training.
Deeds survive the doers.
Knowledge is a mimic creation.
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 its predecessors before it can pass by them.
Knowledge is but an instrument, which the profligate and the flagitious may use as well as the brave and the just.
There may be frugality which is not economy. A community, that withholds the means of education from its children, withholds the bread of life and starves their souls.
Avoid witticisms at the expense of others.
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 evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable.
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 often bound up in them.