I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.

Any work looks wonderful to me except the one which I can do.

Let none presume to measure the irregularities of Michael Angelo or Socrates by village scales.

A determined man, by his very attitude and the tone of his voice, puts a stop to defeat, and begins to conquer.

The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation, and animation, for he does not stop at these facts, but employs them as signs. He knows why the plain, or meadow of space, was strown with these flowers we call suns, and moons, and stars; why the deep is adorned with animals, with men, and gods; for, in every word he speaks he rides on them as the horses of thought.

The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder.

To the young mind every thing is individual, stands by itself. By and by, it finds how to join two things and see in them one nature; then three, then three thousand; and so, tyrannized over by its own unifying instinct, it goes on tying things together, diminishing anomalies, discovering roots running under ground whereby contrary and remote things cohere and flower out from one stem.