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.

We are amphibious creatures, weaponed for two elements, having two sets of faculties, the particular and the catholic.

Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man.

A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages

The lover of letters loves power too.

We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them.

If we meet no gods, it is because we harbor none.