All haste implies weakness.

Ambition is but the evil shadow of aspiration.

Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.

There are things that must be done in faith, else they never have being.

Here I should like to remark, for the sake of princes and princesses in general, that it is a low and contemptible thing to refuse to confess a fault, or even an error. If a true princess has done wrong, she is always uneasy until she has had an opportunity of throwing the wrongness away from her by saying: 'I did it; and I wish I had not; and I am sorry for having done it.

There is no water in oxygen, no water in hydrogen: it comes bubbling fresh from the imagination of the living God, rushing from under the great white throne of the glacier. The very thought of it makes one gasp with an elemental joy no metaphysician can analyse.

They are not the best students who are most dependent on books. What can be got out of them is at best only material; a man must build his house for himself.