If you are truly serious about preparing your child for the future, don’t teach him to subtract—teach him to deduct.

A college degree is a social certificate, not a proof of competence.

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

Make human nature your study wherever you reside—whatever the religion or the complexion, study their hearts.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.

What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn.

A whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

The mind that is not baffled is not employed.

Society as a whole must be converted into a gigantic school.