Of course you will insist on modesty in the children, and respect to their teachers, but if the boy stops you in your speech, cries out that you are wrong and sets you right, hug him!

Every materialist will be an idealist; but an idealist can never go backward to be a materialist.

Without the great arts which speak to the sense of beauty, a man seems to me a poor, naked, shivering creature. These are his becoming draperies, which warm and adorn him.

In analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial.

The socialism of our day has done good service in setting men to thinking how certain civilizing benefits, now only enjoyed by theopulent, can be enjoyed by all.

We must not tamper with the organic motion of the soul.

Oh, be my friend, and teach me to be thine!