“Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.”

Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.

A mother is the best friend God ever gave.

It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.

Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.

It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.

All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.

It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.

There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.

Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.

Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.

To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.

Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.

The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it–to realize it to the full–to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.

Education doesn’t just take place in stuffy classrooms and university buildings, it can happen everywhere, every day to every person.

All of life is a constant education.

Nothing has saddened me so much in life as the hardness of heart of educated people.

Don’t educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.

I hope that having my life and having an education will lengthen my career.

Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces.

I began my education at a very early age; in fact, right after I left college.

A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government.