How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.
It will be hard to discover a better [method of education] than that which the experience of so many ages has already discovered, and this may be summed up as consisting in gymnastics for the body, and _music_ for the soul… For this reason is a musical education so essential;
If slaughterhouses had glass walls everyone would be a vegetarian.
In the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.
If the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
If you have a brain in your head and feet in your shoes, you can steer youeself in any direction you choose.
When people think the world of you, be careful with them.