Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people. 

Small aim is a crime; have great aim.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

It is difficult to violently suppressed people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.

Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliban, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice. 

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.

It is only when we grow old that we learn why we should have been more respectful towards our elders.

If you get down and quarrel everyday, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say.