A dilettantism in nature is barren and unworthy. A fop of fields is no better than his brother on Broadway.

What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, and yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed.

The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.

Greatness is a property for which no man gets credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.

Every man is wanted, and no man is wanted much.

I believe that our own experience instructs us that the secret of Education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained, and he only holds the key to his own secret. By your tampering and thwarting and too much governing he may be hindered from his end and kept out of his own. Respect the child. Wait and see the new product of Nature. Nature loves analogies, but not repetitions. Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.