"The soul of him who has education is whole and perfect and escapes the worst disease, but, if a man's education be neglected, he walks lamely through life and returns good for nothing to the world below."
"The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things."
"In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one."
"He was a wise man who invented God."
"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."
"Ideas are the source of all things"