Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and, however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.

Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.

'Keep reading books, stay in school. I encourage kids to read as much as they can; I challenge you to read a book every two weeks, like I try to.'

Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.

It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devot…