We shall one day learn to supersede politics by education. What we call our root-and-branch reforms of slavery, war, gambling, intemperance, is only medicating the symptoms. We must begin higher up, namely, in education.

You cannot institute, without peril of charlatanism.

Yet some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise, and wherever the vein of thought reaches down into the profound, there is no danger from vanity. Solemn friends will warn them of the danger of the head's being turned by the flourish of trumpets, but they can afford to smile.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects.

I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.

When the literary class betray a destitution of faith, it is not strange that society should be disheartened and sensualized by unbelief.