A great artist... must be shaken by the naked truths that will not be comforted. This divine discontent, this disequilibrium, this state of inner tension is the source of artistic energy.

A noble man is led by woman's gentle words.

We love a girl for very different qualities than understanding. We love her for her beauty, her youth, her mirth, her confidingness, her character, with its faults, caprices and God knows what other inexpressible charms; but we do not love her understanding.

Alas! how much there is in education, and in our social institutions, to prepare us and our children for insanity.

Whoever strenuously endeavors, him we can rescue.

In praising or loving a child, we love and praise not that which is, but that which we hope for.

On every mountain height is rest.