Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.

Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.

All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.

I perceive that I am neither a planter of the backwoods, pioneer, nor settler there, but an inhabitant of the Mind, and given to friendship and ideas. The ancient society, the Old England of New...

Stay is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary.

Action and blood now get the game. Disdain treads on the peaceful name.

Education is that process by which thought is opened out of the soul, and, associated with outward . . . things, is reflected back upon itself, and thus made conscious of its reality and shape....

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

Our dreams drench us in sense, and sense steeps us again in dreams.