I confess myself utterly at a loss in suggesting particular reforms in our ways of teaching. No discretion that can be lodged with a school-committee….

No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews..

The mind will quote whether the tongue does or not..

All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone..

If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the c….

The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation, and the credit of truth and honesty is as safe; nor have I any fear that a skeptical bias can b….

Speech is better than silence; silence is better than speech..

Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility..

In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight..

The leaves are falling, falling as from way off, as though far gardens withered in the skies; they are falling with denying gestures. And in the nigh….

What is man born for but to be a Reformer, a Remaker of what man has made? A renouncer of lies; a restorer of truth and good? Imitating that great Na….

You cannot hide any secret. If the artist succor his flagging spirits by opium or wine, his work will characterize itself as the effect of opium or w….

Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it..

A man of good sense but of little faith, whose compassion seemed to lead him to church as often as he went there, said to me; 'that he liked to have ….

Let us replace sentimentalism by realism and dare to uncover those simple and terrible laws which, be they seen or unseen, pervade and govern..

It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts..

We never touch but at points..

A song is no song unless the circumstance is free and fine. If a singer sing from a sense of duty or from seeing no way to escape,I had rather have n….

Art should exhilarate, and throw down the walls of circumstance on every side, awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal relation and pow….

I could better eat with one who did not respect the truth or the laws, than with a sloven and unpresentable person. Moral qualities rule the world, b….

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss..