Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. I therefore show you only the best works; and when you are grounded in these, you will have a standard for the rest, which you will know how to value, without overrating them.

I can promise to be sincere, but I cannot promise to be impartial.

A lot of people do not care about your money until nearly penniless. They also do so with time

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

Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go.

Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.

The whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence.