Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.

A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants.

All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.

It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.

Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment.

In my dealing with my child, my Latin and Greek, my accomplishments and my money stead me nothing; but as much soul as I have avails. If I am wilful, he sets his will against mine, one for one, and leaves me, if I please, the degradation of beating him by my superiority of strength. But if I renounce my will, and act for the soul, setting that up as umpire between us two, out of his young eyes looks the same soul; he reveres and loves with me.

Aristotle and Plato are reckoned the respective heads of two schools. A wise man will see that Aristotle platonizes.