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.

You can't touch love, but you can feel the sweetness that it pours into everything.

We all make mistakes, as the hedgehog said as he climbed off the scrubbing brush

My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!

We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.

I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief.

The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.

Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.

I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them.

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.

There are two kinds of people in the world: those who love chocolate, and communists.

Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't stand the thought of them changing? Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't see clearly?

The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.

It has been observed, [that for the federal government] to coerce the States is one of the maddest projects that was ever devised.

Country music originates with the colloquial, rural aspects of white America. It's really, truly, rural white America's blues.

I am a strict monogamist: it is twenty years since I last went to bed with two women at once, and then I was in my cups and not myself.

I'll teach you to laugh at something that's funny!

God will make right all that is wrong, He will take away the lingering effect of sin and what's not right in our lives. He knows how painful life in this world can be.

I discovered early that as an artist there was absolutely nothing wrong with being surrounded by people who were not dedicated to your field.

Could the world fall?