The cardinal virtue of a teacher [is] to protect the pupil from his own influence.

A third felicity of age is that it has found expression. The youth suffers not only from ungratified desires, but from powers untried, and from a picture in his mind of a career which has as yet no outward reality. He is tormented with the want of correspondence between things and thoughts.

For it is only the finite that has wrought and suffered; the infinite lies stretched in smiling repose.

Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions.

Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.

A collector recently bought at public auction, in London, for one hundred and fifty-seven guineas, an autograph of Shakespeare; but for nothing a school-boy can read Hamlet and can detect secrets of highest concernment yet unpublished therein.

A man's action is only a poicture book of his creed.