The common person fears to think beyond the common.

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.

One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence and purpose save his strength for battles that can be won.

The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.

Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.

The greatest self is a peaceful smile, that always sees the world smiling back.