Thomas More

"For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them."

"The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest."

"One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated."

"Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire."

"If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable."