Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

Time is indeed the theater and seat of illusions; nothing is so ductile and elastic. The mind stretches an hour to a century, and dwarfs an age to an hour.

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

Neither you nor the world knows what you can do until you have tried.

All nobility in its beginnings was somebody's natural superiority.

The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art.

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.