All a child's life depends on the ideal it has of its parents. Destroy that and everything goes — morals, behaviour, everything. Absolute trust in some one else is the essence of education.

Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.

One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.

No one is more triumphant than the man who chooses a worthy subject and masters all its facts.

It is thus, if there is any rule, that we ought to die--neither as victim nor as fanatic, but as the seafarer who can greet with an equal eye the deep that he is entering, and the shore that he must leave.

You talk as if a god had made the Machine," cried the other. "I believe that you pray to it when you are unhappy. Men made it, do not forget that. Great men, but men. The Machine is much, but not everything.

Let her go to Italy!" he cried. "Let her meddle with what she doesn't understand!