To cultivate the memory we should confide to it only what we understand and love: the rest is a useless burden; for simply to know by rote is not to know at all.
When we know and love the best we are content to lack the approval of the many.
In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed.
Education would be a divine thing, if it did nothing more than help us to think and love great thoughts instead of little thoughts.