“Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.”

“It is a greater work to educate a child, in the true and larger sense of the word, than to rule a state”

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

“Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know”

“I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.”

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