The mark of an educated man is the ability to make a reasoned guess on the basis of insufficient information.

The better part of every man's education is that which he gives himself.

There are three great questions which in life we have over and over again to answer: Is it right or wrong? Is it true or false? Is it beautiful or ugly? Our education ought to help us answer these questions.

Those who have not distinguished themselves at school need not on that account be discouraged. The greatest minds do not necessarily ripen the quickest.

The goal of education is not the pursuit of knowledge for the glorification of the mind, but for the purification of the heart.

Women, like men, must be educated with a view to action, or their studies cannot be called education.

A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

The aim of college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college; the task is to help him become a self-educating man.

To be instructed in the arts softens the manners and makes men gentle.

To elevate above the spirit of the age must be regarded as the end of education.