“Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.”

“It has been my lot to have found myself in many distant lands. I have never been in one without finding a Scotchman, and I never found a Scotchman who was not head of the poll.”

“The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it. ”

“The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.”

“There is no education like adversity.”

“Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.”

“Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.”