Nothing on earth is so weak and yielding as water, but for breaking down the firm and strong it has no equal.
The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.
When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.
At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.
The mother is the most precious possessions of the nation, so precious that society advances its highest well-being when it protects the functions of the mother.
For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.
Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity.
Jesus' teaching in general [implies] that happy and fulfilling sexual relations in marriage depend on each partner aiming to give satisfaction to the other. If it is the joy of each to make the other happy, a hundred problems will be solved before they happen.
The tougher the times, the more clarity you gain about the difference between what really matters and what you only pretend to care about.
But of course you can have your cake and eat it, too - if you decide to to bake a second cake. And you may well find that baking two cakes does not take twice the work of baking one.
Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption.