You can't touch love, but you can feel the sweetness that it pours into everything.

Too often, I think, children are required to write before they have anything to say. Teach them to think and read and talk without self-repression, and they will write because they cannot help it.

We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.

We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties.

The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.

I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief.

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.