The secret of success in education is respecting the students.

Egotism is a kind of buckram that gives momentary strength and concentration to men, and seems to be much used in Nature for fabrics in which local and spasmodic energy is required.

Railroad iron is a magician's rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water.

All minds quote. Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands. By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. We quote not only books and proverbs, but arts, sciences, religion, customs, and laws; nay, we quote temples and houses, tables and chairs, by imitation.

Right is more beautiful than private affection, and is compatible with universal wisdom.

Everything is beautiful seen from the point of the intellect, or as truth. But all is sour if seen as experience.

Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind and in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and good. Heroism is an obedience to a secret impulse of an individual