I confess myself utterly at a loss in suggesting particular reforms in our ways of teaching. No discretion that can be lodged with a school-committee, with the overseers or visitors of an academy, of a college, can at all avail to reach these difficulties and perplexities, but they solve themselves when we leave institutions and address individuals.

Every man should let out all the length of all the reigns; should find or make a frank and healthy expression of what force and meaning is in him.

Our moods do not believe in each other.

Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub.

The spirit of the world, the great calm presence of the creator, comes not forth to the sorceries of opium or of wine.

Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of night, time out of space, and space out of time.

All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.