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.

The sanguine assurance that men and nations can be legislated into goodness, that pressure from without is equivalent to a moral change within, needs a strong backing of inexperience.

Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.

It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.

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

The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.