The absence of temptation is the absence of virtue.

If you are to accomplish all that one demands of you, you must overestimate your own worth.

The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last.

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

Whoever makes it a rule to test action by thought, thought by action, cannot falter, and if he does, will soon find his way back to the right road.

Classicism is health, romanticisim is sickness.

A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.