Sleep, riches, and health, to be truly enjoyed, must be interrupted.

Individuality is to be preserved and respected everywhere, as the root of everything good.

Universal love is a glove without fingers, which fits all bands alike and none closely; but true affection is like a glove with fingers, which fits one hand only, and sits close to that one.

The gymnasium of running, walking on stilts, climbing, etc. stells and makes hardy single powers and muscles, but dancing, like a corporeal poesy, embellishes, exercises, and equalizes all the muscles at once.

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Education should bring to light the ideal of the individual.

He thought of the mouldering child, which laid its withered thin arms around his soul, as if it were his own, and to whom Death had given as much as a god gave to Endymion, — sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.