«El que lee mucho y anda mucho, ve mucho y sabe mucho.»

«You must not abandon the ship in a storm because you cannot control the winds….What you cannot turn to good, you must at least make as little bad as you can.»

«Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt. »

«No hay educación si no hay verdad que transmitir, si todo es más o menos verdad, si cada cual tiene su verdad igualmente respetable y no se puede decidir racionalmente entre tanta diversidad.»

«He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.»

«Only the educated are free.»

«There is no education like adversity. […] On the education of the people of this country the fate of the country depends.»

«The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.»