A good character carries with it the highest power of causing a thing to be believed.

It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

A person's life persuades better than his word.

And this lies in the nature of things: What people are potentially is revealed in actuality by what they produce.

Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding.

Art is a higher type of knowledge than experience.