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

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

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

The highest result of education is tolerance.

Reading is learning, but applying is also learning and the more important kind of learning at that.

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

The only function of a school is to make self-education easier.

The severity of a teacher is better than the love of a father.

But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.

That obtained in youth may endure like characters engraved in stones.

Our whole life is but one great school; from the cradle to the grave we are all learners; nor will our education be finished until we die.

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

To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.