Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Modesty and reverence are no less virtues of freemen than the democratic feeling which will submit neither to arrogance nor to servility.

We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep to the real and the true.

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.

To an imagination of any scope the most far reaching form of power is not money, it is the command of ideas