... the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.

Don't preach too much to your pupils or abound in good talk in the abstract. Lie in wait rather for the practical opportunities, be prompt to seize those as they pass, and thus at one operation get your pupils both to think, to feel, and to do.

We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar. ...Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out.

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.

There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.

There is nothing so absurd that it cannot be believed as truth if repeated often enough.

The teacher's prime concern should be to ingrain into the pupil that assortment of habits that shall be most useful to him throughout life. Education is for behavior, and habits are the stuff of which behavior consists.