What induces a child to learn but his delight in knowing?

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

health in all lands is among the indispensable guarantees of human progress.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.

When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun.

In a word, literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. The things I have learned and the things I have been taught seem of ridiculously little importance compared with their "large loves and heavenly charities.

The one resolution, which was in my mind long before it took the form of a resolution, is the key-note of my life. It is this, always to regard as mere impertinences of fate the handicaps which were placed upon my life almost at the beginning. I resolved that they should not crush or dwarf my soul, but rather be made to blossom, like Aaron's rod, with flowers.