Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood.
Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.
We must not tamper with the organic motion of the soul.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.
Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy, but in the state, and in the schools, it is indispensable to resist the consolidation ofall men into a few men.