Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.

Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too.

The most effective teacher will always be biased, for the chief force in teaching is confidence and enthusiasm.

The fear of hell, the punishment of sin, how the modern parent revolts from such teaching. Yet I will assert that far from doing us children harm, it was a sure foundation to the world of our confidence, a master girder in our palace of delight.

When a woman gets the idea of justice, there's no teaching her any sense.

It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - and the less a man knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything.

People don't use their eyes. They never see a bird, they see a sparrow. They never see a tree, they see a birch. They see concepts.