The grand result of schooling is a mind with just vision to discern, with free force to do: the grand schoolmaster is Practice.

Poetry, therefore, we will call Musical Thought.

Let me have my own way in exactly everything and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist.

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

Friend, hast thou considered the "rugged, all-nourishing earth," as Sophocles well names her; how she feeds the sparrow on the housetop, much more her darling man?

Silence is more eloquent than words.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.