How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances.

Thus inevitably does the universe wear our color, and every object fall successively into the subject itself. The subject exists, the subject enlarges; all things sooner or later fall into place. As I am, so I see; use what language we will, we can never say anything but what we are.

Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.

Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the State.

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.

When a man thinks happily, he finds no foot-track in the field he traverses. All spontaneous thought is irrespective of all else.

Go where he will, the wise man is at home, His hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome.