Edmondo De Amicis

“Work is the noblest of all things. It is the law of life.”

“Study, my son. I do not say that this will make you great, but it will make you less unhappy.”

“Respect your teacher. He is your intellectual father.”

“School is a mother that receives her children from the arms of another mother, the family, to educate and instruct them.”

“Civilization will have to be saved from the professors.”

“Courage, my son, is the first quality of a man.”

“Remember this, my boy. The most beautiful of all the things in this world are of no use to a man if he has not a good heart.”

“A beautiful and laughing face is a passport to all countries and to all hearts.”