To be happy ourselves is a most effectual contribution to the happiness of others.
Art trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.
The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it.
Those who have not distinguished themselves at school need not on that account be discouraged. the greatest minds do not necessarily ripen the quickest.
How little our libraries cost us as compared with our liquor cellars.
Earth and Sky, Woods and Fields, Lakes and Rivers, the Mountain and the Sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.