God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

Cannot we let [children] be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make another you. One's enough.

Our thinking is a pious reception.

Law of Contrariness: Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. Having found them, we shall then hate them for it.

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

There is a capacity of virtue in us, and there is a capacity of vice to make your blood creep.

You cannot institute, without peril of charlatanism.