To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

I do not wish, it happens, to be associated with Massachusetts, either in holding slaves or in conquering Mexico. I am a little better than herself in these respects.

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows. The really diligent student in one of the crowded hives of Cambridge college is as solitary as a dervis in the desert.

Being a teacher is like being in jail; once it's on your record, you can never get rid of it.

Woe be to the generation that lets any higher faculty in its midst go unemployed.

There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.