The secret of success in education is respecting the students.

Sanity is very rare; every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness.

If we walk in the woods, we must feed mosquitoes.

Whenever a true theory appears, it will be its own evidence. Its test is, that it will explain all phenomena.

Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

I now require this of all pictures, that they domesticate me, not that they dazzle me. Pictures must not be too picturesque. Nothing astonishes men so much as common-sense and plain dealing. All great actions have been simple, and all great pictures are.

The private life of one man shall be a more illustrious monarchy,--more formidable to its enemy, more sweet and serene in its influence to its friend, than any kingdom in history. For a man, rightly viewed, comprehendeth the particular natures of all men.