We say the cows laid out Boston. Well, there are worse surveyors.

The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly; the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line.

Pride ruined the angels.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

To believe in luck, if it were not a solecism so to use the word believe, is skepticism.

The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.

I believe that our own experience instructs us that the secret of Education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained, and he only holds the key to his own secret. By your tampering and thwarting and too much governing he may be hindered from his end and kept out of his own. 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.