Meek young men grow up in colleges and believe it is their duty to accept the views which books have given, and grow up slaves.

Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors.

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.

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

A skilful man reads his dreams for his selfknowledge; yet not the details, but the quality.

An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas.

I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship.