If there be any one principle more widely than another confessed by every utterance, or more sternly than another imprinted on every atom of the visible creation, that principle is not liberty, but law.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.

The virtue of the imagination is its reaching, by intuition and intensity, a more essential truth than is seen at the surface of things.

Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the laws of death.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

The best work never was and never will be done for money.