Within, I do not find wrinkles and used heart, but unspent youth.

It is vain to keep a secret from one who has a right to know it. It will tell itself.

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 order of things consents to virtue.

The dice of God are always loaded.

Overhead the sanctities of the stars shine forever-more... pouring satire on the pompous business of the day which they close, and making the generations of men show slight and evanescent.

Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.