Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man’s training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.

Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.