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

They know enough who know how to learn.

Teachers affect eternity. There is no telling where their influence stops.

From cradle to grave this problem of running order through chaos, direction through space, discipline through freedom, unity through multiplicity, has always been, and must always be, the task of education, as it is the moral of religion, philosophy, science, art, politics and economy; but a boy's will is his life, and he dies when it is broken, as the colt dies in harness, taking a new nature in becoming tame.

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

His brothers were the type; he was the variation.

I firmly believe, that before many centuries more, science will be the master of man. The engines he will have invented will be beyond his strength to control. Someday, science shall have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide by blowing up the world.