But genius looks forward: the eyes of men are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates.

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

A rush of thoughts is the only conceivable prosperity that can come to us.

Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.

Nature encourages no looseness; pardons no errors.

Sport is the bloom and glow of a perfect health. The great will not condescend to take anything seriously; all must be as gay as the song of a canary, though it were the building of cities, or the eradication of old and foolish churches and nations, which have cumbered the earth long thousands of years.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.