There is no education like adversity.

If you want the rainbow, you've got to put up with the rain.

A setback only paves the way for a comeback.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will curse you. . . If you bless a situation, it has no power to hurt you, and even if it is troublesome for a time, it will gradually fade out, if you sincerely bless it.

Old age is no place for sissies.

There's no such thing as chance; and what to us seems merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that setbacks and griefs which endure help us in our march forward.

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.

Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.

As an apple is not in any proper sense an apple until it is ripe, so a human being is not in any proper sense a human being until he is educated.

What signifies knowing the names, if you know not the nature of things?

A student is not a container you have to fill, but a torch you have to light up.

A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special...

If you want a new idea, read an old book.

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

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