“Many things we need can wait. The child cannot. Now is the time his bones are formed, his mind developed. To him we cannot say tomorrow, his name is today.”

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Well done is better than well said.

Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.

Say good words, think good thoughts, do good deeds.

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

If it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally, to do it.

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.