He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.

Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.

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

A distracted existence leads us to no goal

Men are much more apt to agree in what they do than in what they think.

A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.