Quote #14365
There is something about poverty that smells like death.
Quote #7332
He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle...
Quote #13253
We have scarcely gotten home … when our children’s sneezes greet us, skinned knees...
Quote #21268
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy...
Quote #17709
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Quote #8897
Live among men as if God beheld you speak to God as if men...
Quote #4084
Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
Quote #2362
The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does...
Quote #20182
You cannot dream yourself into a character you must hammer and forge yourself one.
Quote #17556
Enthusiasm…the sustaining power of all great action.