You perceive now, my friends, what your general or abstract duty is as teachers. Although you have to generate in your pupils a large stock of ideas, any one of which may be inhibitory, yet you must also see to it that no habitual hesitancy or paralysis of the will ensues, and that the pupil still retains his power of vigorous action.

Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.

To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.

Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites, lacks an essential element of largeness.

Results should not be too voluntarily aimed at or too busily thought of. They are sure to float up of their own accord from a long enough daily work at a given matter.

The desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption.

The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.