“Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain”

“I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is”

“Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay, than they think”

“Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots”

“What worries you, masters you”

“Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him”