Education [is] not an end in itself but [is] the first step in a progress which should continue during a lifetime.

The freest child is the child who is most interested in what he is doing, and at whose hand are the materials for his work or play.

A lifetime is not too long to spend in learning about the world.

Children...need most of the same things adults need--consideration, respect for their work, the knowledge that they and the things they do are taken seriously.

The child, unhampered, does not waste time.

Children learn eagerly and well when they have need of the knowledge.

Childhood’s work is learning, and it is in his play...that the child works at his job.

It is only in retrospect that the high points of our lives rise up, flaunting banners.

A school’s job [is] to begin education.

The most important phase of a child’s life was the beginning of it. He must be started right.

Children do not grow up all of a piece; look for the child of seven, especially to take many backward glances at the way he has come, while bounds and leaps unevenly ahead in his growth.

Love as if you were created by the universe just to love.

I was afraid it would come to this, but I have no patience with her now. I'm jealous of every moment away from the work - impatient with any one who tries to steal my time.

In the span of one night, Jenny had gone from being someone he refused to touch to the woman he refused to stay away from.

One does not have to stand again the gale. One yields and becomes part of the wind.

The time I spent thinking about how I was better than somebody else or worrying about somebody else's attitude was time I could put to better use.

Found a smoldering cigarette left by a horse.

Pressure doesn't exist. We create it for ourselves.

...compelling outdoor imagery always combines some kind of personal connection to nature and skillful technique. The former seems to be a form of grace, and the latter an act of the will.

I would rather be a man of conviction than a man of conformity