We live in an age in which superfluous ideas abound and essential ideas are lacking.
To reason, to argue. It is to walk with crutches in search of the truth. We come to it with a leap.
In clothes clean and fresh there is a kind of youth with which age should surround itself.
Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear.
Children must be rendered reasonable, but not reasoners. The first thing to teach them is that it is reasonable for them to obey, and unreasonable for them to dispute.