Let the main object... to seek and to find a method of instruction, by which teachers may teach less, but learners learn more.

Not the children of the rich or of the powerful only, but of all alike, boys and girls, both noble and ignoble, rich and poor, in all cities and towns, villages and hamlets, should be sent to school

Three things give the student the possibility of surpassing his teacher: ask a lot of questions, remember the answers, teach.

Much can be learned in play that will afterwards be of use when the circumstances demand it.

The school is the manufactory of humanity.

Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity; and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, or religion.

Boyhood is distracted for years with precepts of grammar that are infinitely prolix, perplexed and obscure.

Preserve there [bohemia] a hidden seed to glorify thy name.

People who repeatedly find career success learn to broaden their perspective and understand that there are always several roads to getting where you want to go.

The government is a giant logjam in the eternal river of human potential.

When all the experts and forecasts agree, something else is going to happen

I always want to be growing in my craft. Any artist should - whether you paint, whether you do music or film - always grow and study.

Never travel faster than your guardian angel can fly.

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Again rejoicing Nature sees Her robe assume its vernal hues Her leafy locks wave in the breeze, All freshly steep'd in the morning dews.

The Koran was assembled from a variety of prior Hagarene texts (hence the contradictions re Jesus' death) in order to provide the Moses-like Muhammad with a Torah of his own.

The bagpipes sound exactly the same when you have finished as when you started

I always compare human beings to animals. It's a nice way to figure out who they are.