The only gift is a portion of thyself . . . the poet brings his poem; the shepherd his lamb. . . .

The delicious faces of children, the beauty of school-girls, "the sweet seriousness of sixteen," the lofty air of well-born, well-bred boys, the passionate histories in the looks and manners of youth and early manhood, and the varied power in all that well-known company that escort us through life,--we know how these forms thrill, paralyze, provoke, inspire, and enlarge us.

Every man is an infinitely repelling orb, and holds his individual being on that condition.

Freedom is not the right to do as you please, but the liberty to do as you should.

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

Knowledge is when you learn something new every day. Wisdom is when you let something go every day.

The cardinal virtue of a teacher [is] to protect the pupil from his own influence.