Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
I have spread my dreams under your feet. Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.
For he would be thinking of love Till the stars had run away And the shadows eaten the moon.
There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!
Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.
We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.
I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.
The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.