The ideal is the only absolute real; and it must become the real in the individual life as well, however impossible they may count it who never tried it.

The boy should enclose and keep, as his life, the old child at the heart of him, and never let it go. He must still, to be a right man, be his mother's darling, and more, his father's pride, and more. The child is not meant to die, but to be forever fresh born.

Joy cannot unfold the deepest truths. Cometh white-robed Sorrow, stooping and wan, and flingeth wide the door she must not enter.

A Baby Sermon- The lighting and thunder, they go and they come: But the stars and the stillness are always at home

Attitudes are more important than facts.

The birds, the poets of the animal creation - what though they never get beyond the lyrical! - awoke to utter their own joy, and awake like joy in others of God's children.

Never tell a child 'you have a soul.' Teach him, you are a soul; you have a body.