Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.

In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one's life.

No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.