Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action-Into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake.

For every child that is born, it brings with it the hope that God is not yet disappointed with man.

The echo mocks her origin to prove she is the original.

We sit inert, like dead specimens of some museum, while lessons are pelted at us from on high, like hailstones on flowers.

The main object of teaching is not to give explanations, but to knock at the doors of the mind.

He who wants to do good knocks at the gate: he who loves finds the door open.

The pious sectarian is proud because he is confident of his right of possession in God. The man of devotion is meek because he is conscious of God's right of love over his life and soul.