We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

I count him a great man who inhabits a higher sphere of thought, into which other men rise with labor and difficulty; he has but to open his eyes to see things in a true light, and in large relations; whilst they must make painful corrections, and keep a vigilant eye on many sources of error.

For, the advantages which fashion values, are plants which thrive in very confined localities, in a few streets, namely. Out of this precinct, they go for nothing; are of no use in the farm, in the forest, in the market, in war, in the nuptial society, in the literary or scientific circle, at sea, in friendship, in the heaven of thought or virtue.

There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers.

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

Keep your friendships in repair.