Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to human welfare.

A function to each organ, and each organ to its own function, is the law of all organization.

Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity…It is a part of nature.

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

The forces which are working out the great scheme of perfect happiness, taking no account of incidental suffering, exterminate such sections of mankind as stand in their way, with the same sternness that they exterminate beasts of prey and herds of useless ruminants.

Education has for its object to develop the child into a man of well proportioned and harmonious nature-this is alike the aim of parent and teacher.

If on one day we find the fast-spreading recognition of popular rights accompanied by a silent, growing perception of the rights of women, we also find it accompanied by a tendency towards a system of non-coercive education--that is, towards a practical illustration of the rights of children.