We are pantheists as natural scientists, polytheists as poets, and monotheists as moral beings.

Dispel not, the happy delusions of children.

There is nothing new on earth / For a person who lives long and experiences much. / In my years of youthful wandering / I have seen crystallized people.

Treat people the way they are and they will stay that way. Treat people the way they can become and they will become that way.

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

Change amuses the mind, but rarely profits.

What is predestination? Answer: God is more powerful and wiser than we are, therefore he deals with us according to his pleasure.