Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.
Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.
To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
Do not think of knocking out another person’s brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.
Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.
A house without books is like a room without windows.
A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.
Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.
Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care.
In vain do they talk of happiness who never subdued an impulse in obedience to a principle. He who never sacrificed a present to a future good, or a personal to a general one, can speak of happiness only as the blind speak of color.