We live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think we thus lose some respect for one another.

The way you spend Christmas is far more important than how much.

Spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it, reminds me of the Englishman who went to India to make a fortune first, in order that he might return to England and live the life of a poet. He should have gone up garret at once.

I could not undertake to form a nucleus of an institution for the development of infant minds, where none already existed. It would be too cruel.

The man who thrusts his manners upon me does as if he were to insist on introducing me to his cabinet of curiosities, when I wished to see himself.

If Nature is our mother, then God is our father.

The walls that fence our fields, as well as modern Rome, and not less the Parthenon itself, are all built of ruins.