The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.

I was oppressed with the sensations I then felt; I sunk under the weight of them.

A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.

The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.

Toleration ought in reality to be merely a transitory mood. It must lead to recognition. To tolerate is to affront.

He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own.

Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.