“What is the hardest task in the world? To think.”

“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.”

“The never-ending task of self improvement.”

“A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life.”

“That which we persist on doing becomes easier, not that the nature of the task has changed , but our ability to do has increased.”

“What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.”

“Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.”