26 quotes
American politician (1796-1859)
“To pity distress is but human to relieve it is Godlike.”
"Virtue is an angel but she is a blind one and must ask of Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal."
on Knowledge
"Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves."
on Compassion
"Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity."
on Education
"Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge."
"A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated."
"Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery."
"If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both."
on Truth
"Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise."
"Avoid witticisms at the expense of Others."
on Wisdom
"Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen"
on Inspirational
"A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron."
"The object of punishment is prevention from evil it never can be made impulsive to good."
on Justice
"Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time."
"To pity distress is but human to relieve it is Godlike."
"We put things in order - God does the rest. Lay an iron bar east and west it is not magnetized. Lay it north and south and it is."
on Faith
"He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind speak of color."
on Happiness
"False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse."
on Critical Thinking
"Character is what God and the angels know of us reputation is what men and women think of us."
on Character
"Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity."
on Human Rights
"A house without books is like a room without windows."
