If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.
The present age, for all its cosmopolitan hustle, is curiously suburban in spirit.
It seldom pays to be rude. It never pays to be only half-rude.
Learn to foster an ardent imagination; so shall you descry beauty which others passed unheeded.
No one can expect a majority to be stirred by motives other than ignoble.
The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.