"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."
"Every word was once a poem."
"The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs."
"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
"By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote."