Genius without education is like silver in the mind.

Educate the children and it won’t be necessary to punish the men.

You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.

Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body.

I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand.

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

Conceit spoils the finest genius… and the great charm of all power is modesty.

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.