The secret in education lies in respecting the student.

Overhead the sanctities of the stars shine forever-more... pouring satire on the pompous business of the day which they close, and making the generations of men show slight and evanescent.

Washington, where an insignificant individual may trespass on a nation's time.

There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer.

The only gift is a portion of thyself . . . the poet brings his poem; the shepherd his lamb. . . .

We are never without a pilot. When we know not how to steer, and dare not hoist a sail, we can drift. The current knows the way, though we do not. The ship of heaven guides itself, and will not accept a wooden rudder.

I think no virtue goes with size.