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

Pines a thousand years old. Every year they must go farther for them: they recede, like beavers and Indians, before the white man.

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.

Moller, in his Essay on Architecture, taught that the building which was fitted accurately to answer its end would turn out to be beautiful, though beauty had not been intended. I find the like unity in human structures rather virulent and pervasive.

Wise men are not wise at all times.

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise.