How much more the seeker of abstract truth, who needs periods of isolation, and rapt concentration, and almost a going out of thebody to think!

Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

Men are what their mothers made them. You may as well ask a loom which weaves huckabuck why it does not make cashmere as to expect poetry from this engineer or a chemical discovery from that jobber.

The force of character is cumulative.

An eminent teacher of girls said, "the idea of a girl's education, is, whatever qualifies them for going to Europe.

A house is made with walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.

Do not require a description of the countries towards which you sail. The description does not describe them to you, and to- morrow you arrive there, and know them by inhabiting them.