The American child, driven to school by bus and stupefied by television, is losing contact with reality. There is an enormous gap between the sheer weight of the textbooks that he carries home from school and his capacity to interpret what is in them.

The world is big … May it please the One who perchance is to expand the human heart to life's full measure.

It is not difficult to nourish admirable thoughts when the stars are present.

All happiness is a work of art: the smallest error falsifies it, the slightest hesitation alters it, the least heaviness spoils it, the slightest stupidity brutalizes it.

The American child, driven to school by bus and stupefied by television, is losing contact with reality. There is an enormous gap between the sheer weight of the textbooks that he carries home from school and his capacity to interpret what is in them.

If you love life you also love the past, because it is the present as it has survived in memory." Translation by David Downie

All happiness is a form of innocence.