My good hoe as it bites the ground revenges my wrongs, and I have less lust to bite my enemies. In the smoothing the rough hillocks, I smooth my temper.

If we live truly, we shall see truly.

In the vaunted works of Art, The master-stroke is Nature's part.

Research is not seeing what others do not see, it is seeing the same thing as other people and thinking what they do not.

What we call results are beginnings.

Slavery is no scholar, no improver; it does not love the whistle of the railroad; it does not love the newspaper, the mailbag, a college, a book or a preacher who has the absurd whim of saying what he thinks; it does not increase the white population; it does not improve the soil; everything goes to decay.

The secret in education lies in respecting the student.