“Fall seven times and stand up eight.”

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”

“Teach thy tongue to say, “I do not know,” and thus you shall progress.”

“Punishment is justice for the unjust.”

“In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.”

“Try not to have a good time…this is supposed to be educational.”

“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”

“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”

“The past has no power over the present moment.”

“I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.”