"I used to be a lawyer, but now I am a reformed character."

"Children are very nice observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves."

"No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic."

"Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn."

"The scars of others should teach us caution."

"Have not all races had their first unity from a mythology that marries them to rock and hill?"

"We are students of words; we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing"

"The Preacher, the Politicain, the Teacher, Were each of them once a kiddie. A child, indeed, is a wonderful creature. Do I want one? God Forbiddie!"

"Life is consciousness."

"Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."