Willing is not enough, we must do.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

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

Profoundness, genius, spontaneity, merit, nobility, ingenuity, voice propriety, feeling, discernment, sensibility, good taste, great tone, rightness, courtliness, vivacity, boldness, style, freshness, harmony, perfection, imagination, purity, correctness. The greatest writer of all times. God's most astonishing creation.

Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous.

Errors belong to libraries; truth, to the human mind.

Man can find no better retreat from the world than art, and man can find no stronger link with the world than art.