The best way to understand a painting is by drawing it.

No two people see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will often apply the same principle, recognized by both, differently. Even one and the same person won't always maintain the same views and judgments: earlier convictions must give way to later ones.

There is not a single outward mark of courtesy that does not have a deep moral basis.

Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child.

Let us seek to fathom those things that are fathomable and reserve those things which are unfathomable for reverence in quietude.

Is not the core of nature in the heart of man?

Say what you will of fortitude, but show me the man who can patiently endure the laughter of fools when they have obtained an advantage over him. 'Tis only when their nonsense is without foundation that one can suffer it without complaint.