Drive out Nature with a fork, she comes running back.

Education should be as broad as man.

Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato,--at once the glory and the shame of mankind, since neither Saxon nor Roman have availed to add any idea to his categories.

In the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation, and by the broken and decayed, but as a decalogue.

I confess myself utterly at a loss in suggesting particular reforms in our ways of teaching. No discretion that can be lodged with a school-committee, with the overseers or visitors of an academy, of a college, can at all avail to reach these difficulties and perplexities, but they solve themselves when we leave institutions and address individuals.

We love it because it is self dependent, self derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person.

If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries.