Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something.

Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.

Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

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.

There is no education like adversity.

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.

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

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

Read, read, read. Never stop reading. And when you can't read anymore… write.

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

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