Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.

To be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false,--this is the mark and character of intelligence.

The secret in education lies in respecting the student.

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

Nature is a tropical swamp in sunshine, on whose purlieus we hear the song of summer birds, and see prismatic dewdrops, - but her interiors are terrific, full of hydras and crocodiles.

I remember the thought which occurred to me when some ingenious and spiritual foreigners came to America, was, Have you been victimized in being brought hither?--or, prior to that, answer me this, "Are you victimizable?

But what is classification but the perceiving that these objects are not chaotic, and are not foreign, but have a law which is also the law of the human mind?