What is the hardest task in the world? To think.
Each man too is a tyrant in tendency, because he would impose his idea on others; and their trick is their natural defence. Jesuswould absorb the race; but Tom Paine or the coarsest blasphemer helps humanity by resisting this exuberance of power.
Culture is one thing and varnish is another.
God will have life to be real; we will be damned, but it shall be theatrical.
The secret of success in education is respecting the students.
Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.