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.

Go out of the house to see the moon, and't is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey.

Because the soul is progressive, it never quite repeats itself, but in every act attempts the production of a new and fairer whole.

Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.

Sorrow makes us all children again.

Great is paint; nay, God is the painter; and we rightly accuse the critic who destroys too many illusions. Society does not love its unmaskers.

Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons.