I begin to love this little creature, and to anticipate his birth as a fresh twist to a knot which I do not wish to untie. Men are spoilt by frankness, I believe, yet I must tell you that I love you better than I supposed I did, when I promised to love you forever....I feel it thrilling through my frame, giving and promising pleasure.

Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.

It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.

Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.

No man chooses evil because it's evil. He only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

Good habits, imperceptibly fixed, are far preferable to the precepts of reason.

The beginning is always today.