A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money
answereth all things.

A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money
answereth all things.

The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living. -Wendell Phillips.

The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living. -Wendell Phillips.

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it read more

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.

Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred.
[Sp., No con quien naces, sino con read more

Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred.
[Sp., No con quien naces, sino con quien paces.]

Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.

Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.

The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed
of immortality already sown within us; to read more

The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed
of immortality already sown within us; to develop, to their
fullest extent, the capacities of every kind with which the God
who made us has endowed us.

The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're read more

The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.

To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold read more

To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go