Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.
How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.
Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.
If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.
There is so much goodness in real life- do let us keep it out of our books.
There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.