“To live within limits. To want one thing. Or a few things very much and love them dearly. Cling to them, survey them from every angle. Become one with them - that is what makes the poet, the artist, the human being.”

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.”

“The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.”

“The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.”

“If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much time is wasted with this kind of literature.”

“Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.”

“It's true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them.”