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.

A man is reputed to have thought and eloquence; he cannot, for all that, say a word to his cousin or his uncle. They accuse his silence with as much reason as they would blame the insignificance of a dial in the shade. In the sun it will mark the hour. Among those who enjoy his thought, he will regain his tongue.

Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Nature is saturated with Deity.

Whom God has put asunder, why should man put together?

A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own.

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.[What is a sorrow? A feeling whose benefits have not yet been discovered]