Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.
There is no greater crime than to stand between a man and his development; to take any law or institution and put it around him like a collar, and fasten it there, so that as he grows and enlarges, he presses against it till he suffocates and dies.
It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature.
There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure.
Men's best successes come after their disappointments.