Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life, before he apprehends it as truth. In like manner, nature is already, in its forms and tendencies, describing its own design. Let us interrogate the great apparition, that shines so peacefully around us. Let us inquire, to what end is nature?

Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first.