A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

I want to be advertised and the easiest way is to do something obnoxious and do it well.

Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see.

If it were worth while to argue a paradox, one might maintain that nature regards the female as the essential, the male as the superfluity of her world. Perhaps the best starting-point for study of the Virgin would be a practical acquaintance with bees, and especially with queen bees.

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.

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

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