Great Throughts Treasury

"Education is nothing more than the polishing of each single link in the great chain that binds humanity together and gives it unity."

"The greatest victory a man can win is victory over himself."

"So when a great man dies for years beyond our ken the light he leaves behind him lies upon the paths of men."

"What nobody seeks is rarely found."

"He who bears the interests of humanity in his breast, that man is blessed. "

"Thinking leads man to knowledge. He may see and hear, and read and learn, as much as he please; he will never know any of it, except that which he has thought over, that which by thinking he has made the property of his mind. Is it then saying too much if I say, that man by thinking only becomes truly man? Take away thought from man’s life, and what remains?"

"I wish to wrest education from the outworn order of doddering old teaching hacks as well as from the new-fangled order of cheap, artificial teaching tricks, and entrust it to the eternal powers of nature herself, to the light which God has kindled and kept alive in the hearts of fathers and mothers, to the interests of parents who desire their children grow up in favour with God and with men."