Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.

To have played and laughed with enthusiasm, and sung with exultation - this to to have succeeded.

The poet, the painter, the sculptor, the musican, the architect, seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point, and each in his several work to satisfy the love of beauty which stimulates him to produce.

We are imprisoned in life in the company of persons powerfully unlike us.

The great object of Education should be commensurate with the object of life. It should be a moral one; to teach self-trust: to inspire the youthful man with an interest in himself; with a curiosity touching his own nature; to acquaint him with the resources of his mind, and to teach him that there is all his strength.

In nature nothing can be given. All things are sold.

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