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.

It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made, that we exist

The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral.

Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.

Character repudiates intellect, yet excites it; and character passes into thought, is published so, and then is ashamed before newflashes of moral worth.

My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.

Activity is contagious.