Be sure then to read no mean books. Shun the spawn of the press on the gossip of the hour. Do not read what you shall learn, without asking, in the street and the train.

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

We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.

It is God in you that responds to God without, or affirms his own words trembling on the lips of another.

There is more in every person's soul than we think.

The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial side; has its translation, through humanity, into the spiritual and necessary sphere, where it plays a part as indestructible as any other.

The secret of success in education is respecting the students.