Looking forward to going home, I was necessarily looking backward.

Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance.

The word "education" comes from the root e from ex, out, and duco, I lead. It means a leading out. To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.

One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. You must then live it to the full.

It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.

I often wonder if we were all characters in one of God's dreams.

So great was the noise during the day that I used to lie awake at night listening to silence.