"Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge"

"Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college"

"What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child"

"It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice"

"A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers"

"A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect"

"I said when I came into office that I don't want to be a great leader; I want to be a good democrat"

"Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few"

"Behind every great fortune lies a great crime"

"Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life"

"Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm"