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

The art of sculpture is long ago perished to any real effect... it is the game of a rude and youthful people, and not the manly labour of a wise and spiritual nation.

Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.

A mind does not receive truth as a chest receives jewels that are put into it, but as the stomach takes up food into the system. It is no longer food, but flesh, and is assimilated. The appetite and the power of digestion measure our right to knowledge. He has it who can use it. As soon as our accumulation overruns our invention or power to use, the evils of intellectual gluttony begin,— congestion of the brain, apoplexy and strangulation.

Never try to make anyone like you: you know, and God knows, that one of you is enough.

Look out! Behind you!

The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.