We must not tamper with the organic motion of the soul.

Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.

I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it there, but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he buy the book and ransack every page.

I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom.

What new thoughts are suggested by seeing a face of country quite familiar, in the rapid movement of the rail-road car!

The cardinal virtue of a teacher [is] to protect the pupil from his own influence.

Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?