“There are two types of knowledge. One is knowing a thing. The other is knowing where to find it.”

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.

It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Grief is a species of idleness.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.

The future is purchased by the present.

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it…. There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don’t think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.

The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.

What is easy is seldom excellent.

Whoever educates himself and improves his own morals & character is superior to the man who tries to teach & train others.

With no education, you have neocolonialism instead of colonialism.

Teaching is a wonderful profession. Teachers help educate people to become good citizens so that citizens can then go create wealth.

I am an educationist. I’m an economist. I am a politician. I am also now a good storyteller, you know?

No wealth like education and no poverty like ignorance.

You can’t build a revolution with no education.

It is not beyond our power to create a world in which all children have access to a good education.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.