What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.

An eminent teacher of girls said, "the idea of a girl's education, is, whatever qualifies them for going to Europe.

He in whom the love of truth predominates . . . submits to the inconvenience of suspense and imperfect opinion; but he is a candidate for truth . . . and respects the highest law of his being.

Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.

Empirical science is apt to cloud the sight, and, by the very knowledge of functions and processes, to bereave the student of themanly contemplation of the whole.

The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.

Many a reformer perishes in his removal of rubbish,--and that makes the offensiveness of the class. They are partial; they are notequal to the work they pretend. They lose their way; in the assault on the kingdom of darkness, they expend all their energy on some accidental evil, and lose their sanity and power of benefit.