If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it. — Horace Mann. American educational reformer and politician (1796–1859)
Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.
Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.