The facts of nature cannot in the long run be violated. Penetrating and seeping through everything like water, they will undermine any system that fails to take account of them, and sooner or later they will bring about its downfall. But an authority wise enough in its statesmanship to give sufficient free play to nature - of which spirit is a part - need fear no premature decline.

I've realized that somebody who's tired and needs a rest, and goes on working all the same is a fool.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

The symbol in the dream has more the value of a parable: it does not conceal, it teaches.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction, with a consequent drain from some other side of life.