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.

It was not meant that the soul should cultivate the earth, but that the earth should educate and maintain the soul.

The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.

Everywhere the fatal spirit of imitation, of reference to European standards, penetrates and threatens to blight whatever of original growth might adorn the soil.

I stand in the sunny noon of life. Objects no longer glitter in the dews of morning, neither are yet softened by the shadows of evening.

You see how wide the gulf that separates me from the Christian church.

I am 'too fiery'... yet I wish to be seen as I am and I would lose all rather than soften away anything.