A house without books is like room without windows |
A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. |
A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated. |
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron. |
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron. |
Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins |
As a government employee, I was always fighting for financial resources, new staff, new everything, ... (Now,) I have to make sacrifices every day (as a business owner). |
Avoid witticisms at the expense of others |
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. |
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for mankind |
Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves. |
Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity. |
Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge. |
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. |
Education...beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men --the balance wheel of the social machinery...It does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility toward the rich; it prevents being poor. |