Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.

To understand is to possess the thing understood, first by sympathy and then by intelligence.

Mother of Marvels, mysterious and tender Nature, why do we not live more in thee.

The test of every religious, political, or educational system, is the man which it forms. If a system injures the intelligence it is bad. If it injures the character it is vicious. If it injures the conscience it is criminal.

If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes.

Life is an apprenticeship to the constant renunciations, to the steady failure of our claims, our hopes, our powers, our liberty.

Peace is not in itself a dream, but we know it only as the result of a momentary equilibrium--an accident.