Certainly I do not wish that instead of these masters I had read baby books, written down to children, and with such ignorant dullness that they blunt the sense and corrupt the tastes of the still plastic human being. But I do wish that I had read no books at all till later - that I had lived with toys, and played in the open air. Children should not cull the fruits of reflection and observation early, but expand in the sun, and let thoughts come to them. They should not through books antedate their actual experiences.

Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

A man who means to think and write a great deal must, after six and twenty, learn to read with his fingers.

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.

How many persons must there be who cannot worship alone since they are content with so little.

The life of the soul is incalculable.

There exists in the minds of men a tone of feeling toward women as toward slaves.