The secret in education lies in respecting the student.

Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. 'Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or other than by their importance to the mind of the time.

We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave action.

There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.

Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle and carry home with them, and the cause is half won.

I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances.

There are men whose language is strong and defying enough, yet their eyes and their actions ask leave of other men to live.