Affection between adults - if they are really adult in mind and not merely grown up children - and creatures so relatively selfish and cruel as children necessarily are without knowing it or meaning it, cannot be called natural.

Don't waste time collecting other people's autographs; rather devote it to making your own autograph worth collecting.

Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.

Greatness is one of the sensations of littleness

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

No child should be brought up to suppose that its food and clothes come down from heaven or are miraculously conjured from empty space by papa. Loathsome as we have made the idea of duty (like the idea of work) we must habituate children to a sense of repayable obligation to the community for what they consume and enjoy, and inculcate the repayment as a point of honor.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.