Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn.

There is no education like adversity.

The most crucial use of knowledge and education is to understand the importance of developing a good heart.

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.

A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country.

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

The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

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...

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

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

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

The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man.

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

Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual; and, exhibited in the lives of many, it continues the true source of national vigor and strength. Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.

There's always an opportunity to make a difference.

Limitations are merely opportunities to grow. I use them as stepping stones to success.

Now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all of God’s children.

Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness for the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in.

The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.

Be happy with what you have while working for what you want.