We fill the hands and nurseries of our children with all manner of dolls, drums and horses, withdrawing their eyes from the plain face and... Nature, the sun and moon, the animals, the water and stones, which should be their toys.

No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.

Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities.

Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.

I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-borne treasures home.

I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances.

Who loses a day loses life.