Do the thing and you will have the power.

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.

The surest poison is time.

I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.

The reverence for the Scriptures is an element of civilization, for thus has the history of the world been preserved, and is preserved.

Yet these uneasy pleasures and fine pains are for curiosity, and not for life.

The instinct of the people is right.