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Look back on these forebodings, not hastily but reluctantly made, and see how in every instance they have completely failed.

Such biographies increase a man's self-reliance by demonstrating what men can be, and what they can do; fortifying his hopes and elevating his aims in life.

Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be.

We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard-loom weaves flowers and leaves.

Teach them that there is a race with special needs which they and only they can help; that the world needs and is already asking for their trained, efficient forces.

Education, then, is the safest and richest investment possible to man.

‘Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great and difficult things, which you don’t know.’

I want you to make up your minds that you are going to be more nearly perfect, are going to put more manly and womanly strength into the preparation of your lessons each day, that you may be more useful.

There is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women

Thus the Analytical Engine will possess a library of its own. Every set of cards once made will at any future time reproduce the calculations for which it was first arranged.

The brain of man is the social organ, the organ of communication. Through it flows the current of thought, whereby we are enabled to work together.

A boy of spirit may acquire a previous and practical experience of the world; and his playfellows may be the future friends of his heart or his interest.

It has always seemed to me, during many years of active private practice, that the first and constant aim of the family physician should be to diffuse the sanitary knowledge which would enable parents to bring up healthy children.

The study of conditions will prove an education in itself and a stimulus to invention.

The history of human growth and development is at the same time the history of the terrible struggle of every new idea heralding the approach of a brighter dawn.

Yet it is only intelligence and sympathy that can bring us closer to the source of human suffering, and teach us the ultimate way out of it.

The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather, Understand one another.

The more experience we gain, the more progress we can make.

Though conscious of the difficulty of learning without a teacher, I set out with high hope, and a fixed purpose, at whatever cost of trouble, to learn how to read.

With the first word I used intelligently, I learned to live, to think, to hope.

With the dropping of a little word from another's hand into mine, a slight flutter of the fingers, began the intelligence, the joy, the fullness of my life.

It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for the inheritance which awaits them.

The existence of such a government as ours for any length of time is a full proof of a general dissemination of knowledge and virtue throughout the whole body of the people.

To be a recipient of a communication is to have an enlarged and changed experience.

No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.