Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.

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.

Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.

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.

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.

A house without books is like a 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. It is a wrong to his family. He cheats them! Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it.

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.

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen

Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.

Character is what God and the angels know of us reputation is what men and women think of us.

False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.

Schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

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.

To pity distress is but human to relieve it is Godlike.

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

The object of punishment is prevention from evil it never can be made impulsive to good.

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

Virtue is an angel but she is a blind one and must ask of Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal.

Avoid witticisms at the expense of Others.