"Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent."
"Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends."
"Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself."
"What we want to see is the child in pursuit of the knowledge not the knowledge in pursuit of the child."
"A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it."
"A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity."