To do something, however small, to make others happier and better, is the highest ambition, the most elevating hope, which can inspire a human being

If we succeed in giving the love of learning, the learning itself is sure to follow

If we succeed in giving the love of learning, the learning itself is sure to follow.

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

A wise system of education will at least teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.

Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.