Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.

An eminent teacher of girls said, "the idea of a girl's education, is, whatever qualifies them for going to Europe.

After you have pumped your brains for thoughts and verses, there is a better poetry hinted in whistling a tune on your walk.

The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.

Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit.

Every man contemplates an angel in his future self.

It is bad enough that our geniuses cannot do anything useful, but it is worse that no man is fit for society who has fine traits.He is admired at a distance, but he cannot come near without appearing a cripple.