The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.

Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.

This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home.

We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.

While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.

Friendship takes time.

It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.