“Children need models rather than critics.”

“Children always want to look behind mirrors.”

“Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.”

“It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.”

“Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.”

“How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.”

“The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.”