Happy will the house be in which the relationships are formed from character.

Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.

He is a dull observer whose experience has not taught him the reality and force of magic, as well as of chemistry.

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions.

What school, college, or lecture bring men depends on what men bring to carry it home in.

Out from the heart of Nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old.

What we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so. We form no guess, at the time of receiving a thought, of its comparative value. And education often wastes its effort in attempts to thwart and balk this natural magnetism, which is sure to select what belongs to it.