The secret of success in education is respecting the students.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. How far off, how cool, how chaste the persons look,begirt each one with a precinct or sanctuary!

The roses under my window make no reference to former roses or better ones; they are what they are; they exist with God today. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.

We must learn the language of facts. The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses.

If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.

The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting.

Unhappily, no man exists who has not in his own person become, to some amount, a stockholder in the sin, and so made himself liable to a share in the expiation.