You say that love is nonsense. I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength.

The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.

The first serious consciousness of Nature's gesture - her attitude towards life-took form then as a phantasm, a nightmare, all insanity of force. For the first time, the stage-scenery of the senses collapsed; the human mind felt itself stripped naked, vibrating in a void of shapeless energies, with resistless mass, colliding, crushing, wasting, and destroying what these same energies had created and labored from eternity to perfect.

Teachers affect eternity; no one can tell where their influence stops.

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

Every one must bear his own universe, and most persons are moderately interested in learning how their neighbors have managed to carry theirs.

We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.