“What kind of household do kids grow up in that they think they can tie a doll in a noose and it would not affect people? If there were more education about slavery and lynching, people wouldn't do this
“One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit
“The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled
“A single hour a day, steadily given to the study of some interesting subject, brings unexpected accumulations of knowledge
“It is a greater work to educate a child, in the true and larger sense of the word, than to rule a state
“Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know
“Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.
“An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people- it takes away the heat and fever; and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the burden of the mystery
“I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is