Do people conform to the instructions of us old ones? Each thinks he must know best about himself, and thus many are lost entirely.

To become aware in time when young of the advantages of age; to maintain the advantages of youth in old age: both are pure fortune.

We should treat children as God does us, who makes us happiest when He leaves us under the influence of innocent delusions.

We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair.

If we examine every stage of our lives, we find that from our first breath to our last we are under the constraint of circumstances. And yet we still possess the greatest of all freedoms, the power of developing our innermost selves in harmony with the moral order of the universe, and so winning peace of heart whatever obstacles we meet.

Were not the eye made to receive the rays of the sun, it could not behold the sun; if the peculiar power of God lay not in us, how could the godlike charm us?

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