What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some man?

But a compassion for that which is not and cannot be useful and lovely, is degrading and futile.

The advantage of riches remains with him who procured them, not with the heir.

Examples are cited by soldiers, of men who have seen the cannon pointed, and the fire given to it, and who have stepped aside from he path of the ball. The terrors of the storm are chiefly confined to the parlour and the cabin.

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

Every stoic was a stoic; but in Christendom where is the Christian?

I believe that our own experience instructs us that the secret of Education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained, and he only holds the key to his own secret. By your tampering and thwarting and too much governing he may be hindered from his end and kept out of his own. Respect the child. Wait and see the new product of Nature. Nature loves analogies, but not repetitions. Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.