Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.

Each book has a secret history of ways and means.

Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.

That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterwards makes him a manager of life.

The indolent mind is not empty, but full of vermin.

Suffering is part of the divine idea.