The man (or woman) who can make hard things easy is the educator.

Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons.

A good symbol is the best argument, and is a missionary to persuade thousands.

Expediency of literature, reason of literature, lawfulness of writing down a thought, is questioned; much is to say on both sides,and, while the fight waxes hot, thou, dearest scholar, stick to thy foolish task, add a line every hour, and between whiles add a line.

I am not much an advocate for traveling, and I observe that men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own, and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places. For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?

Marriage (in what is called the spiritual world) is impossible, because of the inequality between every subject and every object.

When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive.