Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.

If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.

An idea that no one believes can not be proved too often.

Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.

Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.

A child hasn't a grown-up person's appetite for affection. A little of it goes a long way with them; and they like a good imitation of it better than the real thing, as every nurse knows.