Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

My weapon is literature

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.

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.

Courage, conviction and confidence.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

It is better to know how to learn than to know.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

To every action there is always an equal and opposite or contrary, reaction

Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

When you know better you do better.

Industrialize or perish.

I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.