We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

Fret not over the irretrievable, but ever act as if thy life were just begun.

Each one sees what he carries in his heart.

Man is not born to solve the problems of the universe, but to find out where the problems begin, and then to take his stand within the limits of the intelligible.

If you wish a wise answer, you must put a rational question.

Man's restlessness makes him strive.

Who strives always to the utmost, him can we save.

A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.

There is nothing more frightful than for a teacher to know only what his scholars are intended to know.

Thank God when he oppresses you, and again when he releases you.