A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

Respect the child. Wait and see the new product of Nature. Nature loves analogies, but not repetitions. Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

In different hours, a man represents each of several of his ancestors, as if there were seven or eight of us rolled up in each man's skin, - seven or eight ancestors at least, and they constitute the variety of notes for that new piece of music which his life is.

Prudence is the virtue of the senses. It is the science of appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life.

Science, Nature,-O, I've yearned to open some page.

Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all. Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.