“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stop...” — Henry Adams Quote

“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”

“No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.”

“The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.”

“One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.”

“Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy.”

“My own ideas on the mechanism of catalytic phenomena were very different from those at one time commonly held, ideas which I no doubt owed to the influence of the illustrious teacher who had guided my first steps in chemistry nearly twenty years before - I refer, of course, to Berthelot.”