I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. |
I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven. |
I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply, not into the market, not into opinion, not into patronage |
I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply. |
I pay the schoolmaster but 'tis the schoolboys who educate my son |
I pay the schoolmaster, but it is the school boys who educate my son. |
I see my trees repair their boughs |
I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young soul to which they are totally unfit. Cannot we let people be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make that man another you. One's enough. |
I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it there, but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he buy the book and ransack every page. |
I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore, With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar |
I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all |
I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor. |
Ideas must work through the brains and arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams |
If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door. |
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. Such a creature is probably immortal. |