Ideality is the avant-courier of the mind.
God draweth straight lines but we call them crooked.
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.
Just in proportion as a man becomes good, divine, Christ-like, he passes out of the region of theorizing, of system-building, and hireling service, into the region of beneficent activities. It is well to think well. It is divine to act well.
Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect.
Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
Schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications.
Thank Heaven, the female heart is untenantable by atheism.
In trying to teach children a great deal in a short time, they are treated not as though the race they were to run was for life, but simply a three-mile heat.
The most precious wine is produced upon the sides of volcanoes. Now bold and inspiring ideals are only born of a clear head that stands over a glowing heart.
Education is a capital to the poor man, and an interest to the rich man.
Education must bring the practice as nearly as possible to the theory. As the children now are, so will the sovereigns soon be.
When you introduce into our schools a spirit of emulation, you have present the keenest spur admissible to the youthful intellect.
The pulpit only “teaches” to be honest; the market-place “trains” to overreaching and fraud; and teaching has not a tithe of the efficiency of training. Christ never wrote a tract, but He went about doing good.
Willmott has very tersely said that embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children.
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.