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.

The modernness of all good books seems to give men an existence as wide as man.

Prayer that craves a particular commodity, anything less than all good, is vicious.

We are thus assisted by natural objects in the expression of particular meanings. But how great a language to convey such pepper-corn informations!

Prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness.

That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.

I am Defeated all the time, yet to Victory I am born.