One must envision the higher life and behave as if it were a fact before it can unfold.
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress.
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
The highest result of education is tolerance.
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. Whereas, if the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily.