Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence,— the oth… - Horace Mann

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn, is hammering on cold iron.

Education...beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men — the balance wheel of the social machinery...It does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility toward the rich; it prevents being poor.

No matter how seemingly unconnected with human affairs or remote from human interests a newly-discovered truth may appear to be, time and genius will some day make it minister to human welfare. When Dr. Franklin was once sceptically asked what was the use of some recondite and far-off truth which had just been brought to light, "What," said he, "is the use of babies?"