The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

Analogies are figures intended to serve as fatal weapons if they succeed, and as innocent toys if they fail.

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

History is a tangled skein that one may take up at any point, and break when one has unravelled enough.

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

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

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.