The things taught in schools & colleges are not an education but the means of education.

My life is superficial, takes no root in the deep world; I ask, When shall I die, and be relieved of the responsibility of seeinga Universe which I do not use? I wish to exchange this flash-of-lightning faith for continuous daylight, this fever-glow for a benign climate.

Those who listened to Lord Chatham felt that there was something finer in the man, than anything which he said.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

I see my trees repair their boughs.

Do not shut up the young people against their will in a pew, and force the children to ask them questions for an hour against their will.

The poisons are our principal medicines, which kill the disease and save the life.