 Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room. |
| The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present. |
| A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers. |
| Ideas are the root of creation. |
| Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul. |
| Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it. |
| All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy. |
| Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking. Topics: Education |
| Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement. Topics: Life |
| The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things. |
| Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. |
