"Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run."

"Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter."

"We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible."

"The countries that out-educate us today will out-compete us tomorrow."

"In Boston they ask, How much does he know? In New York, How much is he worth? In Philadelphia, Who were his parents?"

"Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned."

"Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that traveleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel."

"There is no education like adversity."

"I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men."

"There are two classes of poets — the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love."

"All educated Americans, first or last, go to Europe."

"It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences."

"Education is the best provision for old age."

"We must reach out our hand in friendship both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy. We must believe in the power of education."

"Men have their virtues and their vices, their heroisms and their perversities; men are neither wholly good nor wholly bad, but possess and practice all that there is of good and bad here below. Such is the general rule. Temperament, education, the accidents of life, are modifying factors. Outside of this, everything is ordered arrangement, everything is chance. Such has been my rule of expectation and it has usually brought me success."