A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as for the body. For human beings are not so constituted that they can live without expansion. If they do not get it in one way, they must in another, or perish.

What a difference it makes to come home to a child!

Some degree of expression is necessary for growth, but it should be little in proportion to the full life.

Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.

... the Power who gave a power, by its mere existence, signifies that it must be brought out towards perfection.

Tremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break.

While any one is base, none can be entirely free and noble.