Most of the great results of history are brought about by discreditable means.

No book was ever written down by any but itself.

You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him. You send him to the Latin class, but much of histuition comes, on his way to school, from the shop- windows.

As long as our people quote English standards they dwarf their own proportions.

The universal soul is the alone creator of the useful and the beautiful; therefore to make anything useful or beautiful, the individual must be submitted to the universal mind.

There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place; he is you, and you are he; then is a teaching; and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever lose the benefit.

Of the Shaker society, it was formerly a sort of proverb in the country, that they always sent the devil to market.