The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitants of the northern temperate zone wiser and abler than his fellow who enjoys the fixed smile of the tropics.
A man is known by the books he reads.
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, with the overseers or visitors of an academy, of...
My life is not an apology, but a life. It is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and un...
The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it
If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.
The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.
We acquire the strength we have overcome.
The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.
Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
What torments of grief you endured from evils that never arrived.
Good-bye proud world! I'm going home Thou are not my friend I am not thine.
A woman's strength is the irresistible might of weakness.
We can see well into the past we can guess shrewdly in to the future but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable folds is today.
If a man carefully examines his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead.