All government, all exercise of power, no matter in what form, which is not based in love and directed by knowledge, is a tyranny.

The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us.

Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.

In the art of design, color is to form what verse is to prose,--a more harmonious and luminous vehicle of the thought.

Occupation was one of the pleasures of paradise, and we cannot be happy without it.

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.

If a superior woman marry a vulgar or inferior man, he makes her miserable, but seldom governs her mind or vulgarizes her nature; and if there be love on his side, the chances are that in the end she will elevate and refine him.