Children need models rather than critics.

All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.

Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.

Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.

When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.

We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.

There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.