What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.[What is a sorrow? A feeling whose benefits have not yet been discovered]

There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place; he is you, and you are he; then is a teaching; and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever lose the benefit.

Nature is saturated with Deity.

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

Every artist was first an amateur.

Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion?

The sanity of society is a balance of a thousand insanity's.