The secret in education lies in respecting the student.

I am not so foolish as to declaim against forms. Forms are as essential as bodies; but to exalt particular forms, to adhere to oneform a moment after it is outgrown, is unreasonable, and it is alien to the spirit of Christ.

The work of vegetation begins first in the irritability of the bark and leaf-buds.

Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour and is not reminded of the flux of all things?

My companion assumes to know my mood and habit of thought, and we go on from explanation to explanation, until all is said that words can, and we leave matters just as they were at first, because of that vicious assumption.

A great licentiousness treads on the heels of a reformation.

Though we love goodness and not stealing, yet also we love freedom and not preaching.