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.
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So, in the infinitely nobler battle in which you are engaged against error and wrong, if ever repulsed or stricken down, may you always be solaced and cheered by the exulting cry of triumph over some abuse in Church or State, some vice or folly in society, some false opinion or cruelty or guilt which you have overcome! And I beseech you to treasure up in your hearts these my parting words: Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
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A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron.
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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.
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Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.
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Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.
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If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.
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Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.
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Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
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A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.
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Be ashamed to die unless you have won some victory for humanity.
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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.
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Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.
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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.
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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.
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Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
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Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins
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Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
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Habit is a cable; we weave a thread each day, and at last we cannot break it.
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It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.
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Teaching isn't one-tenth as effective as training.
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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.
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To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
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Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us.
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Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.
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It is well to think well. It is divine to act well.
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