Where can one find a profounder desolation than in the poor child who has lost its mother?

A foul-mouthed oaf, a drunken laborer lying in a drain, a beaten wife with blackened eyes and torn clothes, cannot be made romantic to a child who sees how other children suffer from bad-tempered parents, from drunken fathers to termagant mothers.

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

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.

Remember I'm an artist. And you know what that means in a court of law. Next worst to an actress

A friend of mine tells me that a Beethoven symphony can solve for him a problem of conduct. I've no doubt that it does so simply by giving him a sense of the tragedy and the greatness of human destiny, which makes his personal anxieties seem small, which throws them into a new proportion.

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