Care and labor are as much correlated to human existence as shadow is to light.

he who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.

Treat 'em like dogs, and you'll have dogs' works and dogs' actions. Treat 'em like men, and you'll have men's works.

Children will grow up substantially what they are by nature--and only that.

In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.

There is a great life-giving, warming power called Love, which exists in human hearts dumb and unseen, but which has no real life, no warming power, till set free by expression.

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.