"The best teachers are those who have the freest command of thought and language." — Xenophon

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction

Source: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790-1793)

I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on

Source: In a Balcony (1855)

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul

Source: The Spectator, no. 215 (1711)

The language of friendship is not words but meanings

Source: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)

Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity.

Source: Sartor Resartus (1836)

Observation more than books, experience rather than persons, are the prime educators

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