Surely a man needs a closed place wherein he may strike root and, like the seed, become. But also he needs the great Milky Way above him and the vast sea spaces, though neither stars nor ocean serve his daily needs.

Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.

It was the contemplation of God that created men who were equal, for it was in God that they were equal.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Demagoguery enters at the moment when, for want of a common denominator, the principle of equality degenerates into the principle of identity.

I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.

When someone blushes, doesn't that mean 'yes'?