When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also Plato was debtor.

It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made, that we exist

Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth.

What goes on around you... compares little with what goes on inside you.

The moral sense is always supported by the permanent interest of the parties. Else, I know not how, in our world, any good would ever get done.

Expediency of literature, reason of literature, lawfulness of writing down a thought, is questioned; much is to say on both sides,and, while the fight waxes hot, thou, dearest scholar, stick to thy foolish task, add a line every hour, and between whiles add a line.

An eminent teacher of girls said, "the idea of a girl's education, is, whatever qualifies them for going to Europe.