The secret in education lies in respecting the student.

When a thought of Plato becomes a thought to me,--when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine, time is no more. When I feel that we two meet in a perception, that our two souls are tinged with the same hue, and do as it were run into one, why should I measure degrees of latitude, why should I count Egyptian years?

The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the country turns out.

I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.

Guard your own spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds.

If you know you are right, stay the course even though the whole world seems to be against you and everyone you know questions your judgment. When you prevail--and you eventually will if you stick to the job--they will all tell you that they knew all along you could do it.

I look on Sculpture as history. I do not think the Apollo and the Jove impossible in flesh and blood. Every trait the artist recorded in stone, he had seen in life, and better than his copy.