For a great nature, it is a happiness to escape a religious training; religion of character is so apt to be invaded.

Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives.

Or whipping its rough surface for a trout.

Only so much of life do I know as I have lived.

I believe that our own experience instructs us that the secret of Education lies in respecting the pupil.

Nature will not be Buddhist: she resents generalizing, and insults the philosopher in every moment with a million fresh particulars.

Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato,--at once the glory and the shame of mankind, since neither Saxon nor Roman have availed to add any idea to his categories.