Tread Lightly, she is near Under the snow, Speak gently, she can hear The daisies grow.

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.

The Americans are certainly hero-worshipers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.

Far away beyond the pine-woods,' he answered, in a low dreamy voice, 'there is a little garden. There the grass grows long and deep, there are the great white stars of the hemlock flower, there the nightingale sings all night long. All night long he sings, and the cold, crystal moon looks down, and the yew-tree spreads out its giant arms over the sleepers.

In a temple everything should be serious except the thing that is being worshiped.

It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings.

One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.