We must leave our pets at home, when we go into the street, and meet men on broad grounds of good meaning and good sense.

It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to infer. But our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood, and always we are fishing up some wonderful article out of that pond; until, by and by, we begin to suspect that the biography of the one foolish person we know is, in reality, nothing less than the miniature paraphrase of the hundred volumes of the Universal History.

Colleges, in like manner, have their indispensable office,--to teach elements. But they can only highly serve us, when they aim not to drill, but to create; when they gather from far every ray of various genius to their hospitable halls, and, by the concentrated fires, set the hearts of their youth on flame.

I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Aristotle and Plato are reckoned the respective heads of two schools. A wise man will see that Aristotle platonizes.

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.

All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are ... punished by fear.