Is not the core of nature in the heart of man?

There are two things parents should give their children roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging, but also wings to help free them from constraints and prejudices and give them other ways to travel (or rather, to fly).

He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff for that purpose in it; and a man becomes renowned because he has the necessary stuff in him. Renown is not to be sought, and all pursuit of it is vain. A person may, indeed, by skillful conduct and various artificial means, make a sort of name for himself; but if the inner jewel is wanting, all is vanity, and will not last a day.

Every beginning is cheerful.

The flowers are full of honey, but only the bee finds out the sweetness.

Analysis and synthesis are both as necessary to the thinking spirit as inspiration and expiration to the organism.