When all shoot at one mark, the gods join in the combat.

A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.

Who are the farmer's servants? ... Geology and Chemistry, the quarry of the air, the water of the brook, the lightning of the cloud, the castings of the worm, the plough of the frost.

I believe that our own experience instructs us that the secret of Education lies in respecting the pupil.

There is more in every person's soul than we think.

Emancipation is the demand of civilization. That is a principle; everything else is an intrigue.

Only to youth will spring be spring.