"Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning."

"The land of scholars, and the nurse of arms."

"The entire object of true education, is to make people not merely do the right thing, but to enjoy right things; not merely industrious, but to love industry; not merely learned, but to love knowledge."

"It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all that he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his readers is sure to skip them."

"To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education."

"Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them."

"The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work."

"The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion."

"All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time."

"Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs."

"What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?"

"How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?"

"The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced."

"You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement."

"It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning."

"Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding."

"Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them."

"You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year."

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young."

"I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line."

"As a 9th grader, I competed with the high school kids and out of 600 people, I finished 10th."

"If you have four years to complete your college education, do it."

"It occurred to me in my junior year of high school. I got my first letter from a big college. I still have that letter to this day - a letter from Indiana."

"Being a novelty had its advantages."