It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.
If this is not done, future ages will certainly look back upon us as a people so immersed in the pursuit of wealth as to be blind to higher considerations.
Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry; all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it.
