"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
"I have nothing more to give you than my heart. Spanish saying Hearts are not to be had as a gift hearts are to be earned."
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Source: William Butler Yeats (2013). “Early Poems”, p.40, Courier Corporation
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