"Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge"

"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"

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

"Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned"

"Given the choice, children who don't want for anything will not save... We have an obligation as parents to give our children what they need. What they want we can give them as a special gift, or they can save their money for it"

"Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness"

"Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles"

"A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present"

"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"

"Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue"