The essence of education is the education of the body.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

"Sorry" only counts for that which it cannot alter.

We are now in want of an art to teach how books are to be read rather than to read them. Such an art is practicable.

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

You know, all is development. The principle is perpetually going on. First, there was nothing, then there was something; then-I forget the next-I think there were shells, then fishes; then we came-let me see-did we come next? Never mind that; we came at last. And at the next change there will be something very superior to us-something with wings. Ah! That's it: we were fishes, and I believe we shall be crows.

In art the Greeks were the children of the Egyptians. The day may yet come when we shall do justice to the high powers of that mysterious and imaginative people.