A child must feel the flush of victory and the heart-sinking of disappointment before he takes with a will to the tasks distasteful to him and resolves to dance his way through a dull routine of textbooks.

Instead of being satisfied to alleviate suffering, we shall labor hard and continually to prevent it.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

Happiness is the final and perfect fruit of obedience to the laws of life.

It is certain that I cannot always distinguish my own thoughts from those I read, because what I read becomes the very substance and text of my mind.