You talk of the scythe of Time, and the tooth of Time: I tell you, Time is scytheless and toothless; it is we who gnaw like the worm - we who smite like the scythe. It is ourselves who abolish - ourselves who consume: we are the mildew, and the flame.

No amount of pay ever made a good soldier, a good teacher, a good artist, or a good workman.

As unity demanded for its expression what at first might have seemed its opposite--variety; so repose demands for its expression the implied capability of its opposite--energy. It is the most unfailing test of beauty; nothing can be ignoble that possesses it, nothing right that has it not.

If the thing is impossible, you need not trouble yourselves about it; if possible, try for it.

One can't be angry when one looks at a penguin.

It is among children only, and as children only, that you will find medicine for your healing and true wisdom for your teaching.

Without the perfect sympathy with the animals around them, no gentleman's education, no Christian education, could be of any possible use.