If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

Animals, we have been told, are taught by their organs. Yes, I would add, and so are men, but men have this further advantage that they can also teach their organs in return.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Superstition is the poesy of practical life; hence, a poet is none the worse for being superstitious.

The rainbow mirrors human aims and action. Think, and more clearly wilt thou grasp it, seeing Life is but light in many-hued reflection.

Faith is hidden household capital.

Love, whose power youth feels, is not suitable for the elderly, just as little as anything that presupposes productivity. It is rare that productivity lasts through the years.