People say sometimes that Beauty is superficial. That may be so. But at least it is not so superficial as Thought is. To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners.

Education is very admirable but let us not forget that anything worth knowing cannot be taught.

Children have a natural antipathy to books- handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be less apt to destroy and be mischievous.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

Let me be dressed as I will, yet flies worms and flowers exceed me still.

Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.