An American Virgin Would Never Dare Command;

Since [rousseau's] Time, And Largely Thanks To Him, The Ego Has Steadily Tended To Efface Itself, And, For Purposes Of Model, To Become A Manikin On Which The Toilet Of Education Is To Be Draped In Order To Show The Fit Or Misfit Of The Clothes. The Object Of Study Is The Garment, Not The Figure.

Man Is An Imperceptible Atom Always Trying To Become One With God.

Teachers Affect Eternity; No One Can Tell Where Their Influence Stops.

Education Should Try To Lessen The Obstacles, Diminish The Friction, Invigorate The Energy, And Should Train Minds To React, Not At Haphazard, But By Choice, On The Lines Of Force That Attract Their World. What One Knows Is, In Youth, Of Little Moment; They Know Enough Who Know How To Learn.

The Sensation Of Seeing Extremely Fine Women, With Superb Forms, Perfectly Unconscious Of Undress, And Yet Evidently Aware Of Their Beauty And Dignity, Is Worth A Week's Seasickness To Experience... [to Me] The Effect [of A Siva Dance] Was That Of A Dozen Rembrandts Intensified Into The Most Glowing Beauty Of Life And Motion.