"He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets — most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation; but he shuts the door of truth."
"Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss."
"None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone."
"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."
"What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find."
"The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next."