Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.

Gray is the color of all theory

Traveling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for.

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.

Basic characteristics of an individual organism: to divide, to unite, to merge into the universal, to abide in the particular, to transform itself, to define itself, and as living things tend to appear under a thousand conditions, to arise and vanish, to solidify and melt, to freeze and flow, to expand and contract. Since these effects occur together, any or all may occur at the same moment.

All sects seem to me to be right in what they assert, and wrong in what they deny.

Boldness has power, magic and genius in it.