“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it”

“Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body”

“All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind”

“Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body”

“A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated”

“It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense ”