“People destined to meet will do so, apparently by chance, at precisely the right moment.”

“People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad.”

“Life is a journey, not a destination.”

“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”

“People go out to look at sunrises and sunsets who do not recognize their own, quietly and happily, but know that it is foreign to them. As they do by books, so they quote the sunset and the star, and do not make them theirs. Worse yet, they live as foreigners in a world of truth, and quote thoughts, and thus disown them. Quotation confesses inferiority”

“Tomorrow, a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time.”

“It facilitates labor and thought so much that there is always the temptation in large schools to omit the endless task of meeting the wants of each single mind, and to govern by steam. But it is at frightful cost. Our modes of Education aim to expedite, to save labor; to do for masses what cannot be done for masses, what must be done reverently, one by one: say rather, the whole world is needed for the tuition of each pupil.”