Poetry is the attempt which man makes to render his existence harmonious.

Unity, agreement, is always silent or soft-voiced; it is only discord that loudly proclaims itself.

Action hangs, as it were, dissolved in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The kind of speech in a man betokens the kind of action you will get from him.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

A judicious man looks at Statistics, not to "get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted 'on him".

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