Our safety is not in blindness, but in facing our dangers.

Satisfied if they themselves can escape from the hard labour of thought, they willingly abandon to others the guardianship of their thoughts.

Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.

If you would attain to your highest, go look upon a flower;what the flower does willessly, that do willingly.

Foster the beautiful, and every hour thou tallest new flowers to birth.

It may here be justly said, that genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity, and a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quicksand to virtue.

Yet have I ever heard it said that spies and tale-bearers have done more mischief in this world than poisoned bowl or the assassin's dagger.