Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

The beautiful is a phenomenon which is never apparent of itself, but is reflected in a thousand different works of the creator.

Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.

Association with women is the basis of good manners.

We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

Microscopes and telescopes really confuse our minds.

A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.