To be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false,--this is the mark and character of intelligence.

The advantage in education is always with those children who slip up into life without being objects of notice.

The first wealth is health.

I like people who like Plato.

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads, just one year afterwards.

The astonishment of life is the absence of any appearances of reconciliation between the theory and the practice of life.

In nature, all is useful, all is beautiful. It is therefore beautiful, because it is alive, moving, reproductive; it is thereforeuseful, because it is symmetrical and fair. Beauty will not come at the call of a legislature, nor will it repeat in England or America its history in Greece. It will come, as always, unannounced, and spring up between the feet of brave and earnest men.