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

We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness.

Man is not made for society, but society is made for man. No institution can be good which does not tend to improve the individual.

Artists are always young.

Our desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily.

Plants of great vigor will almost always struggle into blossom, despite impediments. But there should be encouragement, and a free genial atmosphere for those of more timid sort, fair play for each in its own kind.

The Arabian horse will not plough well, nor can the plough-horse be rode to play the jereed.