Nature encourages no looseness; pardons no errors.

Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul.

In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern boxes.

How shall a man escape from his ancestors, or draw off from his veins the black drop which he drew from his father's or mother's life?

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Skepticism? Yes, but a saint is a skeptic once in twenty-four hours.

Let us make education brave and preventive. Politics is an afterwork, a poor patching. We are always a little late... We shall one day learn to supercede politics by education... We must begin higher up, namely in Education.