Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt

The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.

If education is to develop human nature so that it may attain the object of its being, it must involve the exercise of judgment.

Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity; and is independence on the will and co-action of every other in so far as this consists with every other person's freedom.

The nice thing about living in a small town is that when you don't know what you're doing, someone else does.

I learned to honor human beings, and I would find myself far more useless than the common laborer if I did not believe that this consideration could impart to all others a value establishing the rights of humanity.

Art is purposiveness without purpose.