The ideal, after all, is true than the real: for the ideal is the eternal element in perishable things.
Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything.
Man is a passion which brings a will into play, which works an intelligence.
To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.
Order is man's greatest need, and his true well-being.
The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.