Nature turns all malfaisance to good.

I think I have done well, if I have acquired a new word from a good author; and my business with him is to find my own, though itwere only to melt him down into an epithet or an image for daily use.

Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter. That the world is for his education is the only sane solution of the enigma.

The advantage in education is always with those children who slip up into life without being objects of notice.

Because the soul is progressive, it never quite repeats itself, but in every act attempts the production of a new and fairer whole.

In the moment when you make the least petition to God, though it be but a silent wish that he may approve you, or add one moment to your life,--do you not, in the very act, necessarily exclude all other beings from your thought? In that act, the soul stands alone with God, and Jesus is no more present to your mind than your brother or your child.

He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread