It is at the approach of extreme danger when a hollow puppet can accomplish nothing, that power falls into the mighty hands of nature, of the spirit giant-born, who listens only to himself, and knows nothing of compacts.

Culture, far from giving us freedom, only develops, as it advances, new necessities; the fetters of the physical close more tightly around us, so that the fear of loss quenches even the ardent impulse toward improvement, and the maxims of passive obedience are held to be the highest wisdom of life.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

If you would attain to your highest, go look upon a flower;what the flower does willessly, that do willingly.

The first great law is to obey.

Dare to be wrong and to dream.

The key to education is the experience of beauty.