What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit; Whats genuine, shall posterity inherit.

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

To make converts is the natural ambition of everyone.

Words are good, but there is something better. The best cannot be explained by words. The spirit in which we act is the chief matter. Action can only be only understood and represented by the spirit.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

Every great idea exerts, on first appearing, a tyrannical influence: Hence, the advantages it brings are turned all too soon into disadvantages.

It is impossible that beauty should ever distinctly appreciate itself.