The mind is not, I know, a highway, but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.

Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day's performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too distant, pick up the pebble that lies at thy feet, and from it learn the all.

There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes.

Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us be completely natural; before we trouble ourselves with the supernatural.

Next to invention is the power of interpreting invention; next to beauty the power of appreciating beauty.

Those have not lived who have not seen Rome.

there is such a rebound from parental influence that it generally seems that the child makes use of the directions given by the parent only to avoid the prescribed path.