Fine art is the only teacher except torture.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.

The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.

Stimulate the phagocytes.

Every child has a right to its own bent. . . . It has a right to find its own way and go its own way, whether that way seems wise or foolish to others, exactly as an adult has. It has a right to privacy as to its own doings and its own affairs as much as if it were its own father.