I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
Industrialize or perish.
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I have great respect for the semi-colon; it's a useful little chap.
To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.
The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.
Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
What is now proved was once only imagined.
The highest result of education is tolerance.
Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.
The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions.
I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
