In education it is better to inspire the heart with a noble sentiment than to teach the mind a truth of science.

Mental Science and Methods of Mental Culture (Lancaster, PA: Normal Publishing Co, 1883) ch. 2, pp. 456–7. Reported, unattributed, in Josiah H. Gilbert (ed.) Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (Troy, NY: H. B. Nims and Co, 1883) p. 531