We cannot let our angels go; we do not see that they only go out that archangels may come in.

Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of life.

A self-denial, no less austere than the saint's, is demanded of the scholar. He must worship truth, and forgo all things for that,and choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented.

Give all to love; Obey thy heart.

We are shut up in school and college recitation rooms for ten to fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing. We cannot use our hands, or our legs, or our eyes, or our arms. We do not know an edible root in the woods. We cannot tell our course by the stars, nor the hour of day by the sun. It is well if we can swim and skate. We are afraid of a horse or a cow, of a dog, of a cat, of a spider. Far better was the Roman rule to teach a boy nothing that he could not learn standing.

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.