Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves

Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions

You can believe in God without believing in immortality, but it is hard to see how anyone can believe in immortality and not believe in God.

Touch the earth, love the earth, honour the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas; rest your spirit in her solitary places.