Freedom is the essence of this faith. It has for its object simply to make men good and wise. Its institutions then should be as flexible as the wants of men. That form out of which the life and suitableness have departed should be as worthless in its eyes as the dead leaves that are falling around us.

How much better when the whole land is a garden, and the people have grown up in the bowers of a paradise.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

[Gratitude is] the cheerfulness of wisdom.

Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.

A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.

When we have arrived at the question, the answer is already near.