In its broadest term, religion says that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in rightful relations to it.

To know one thing thoroughly would be to know the universe.

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.

The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man's thoughts and another's.

The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.

The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.