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.

Good nature is stronger than tomahawks.

Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.

The gentleman is a man of truth.

Earth endures; Stars abide.

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

Government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party; the rich and the strong can better take care of themselves.