Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future.

The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.

Education is the leading human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them; and these two objects are always attainable together, and by the same means; the training which makes man happiest in themselves also makes them most serviceable to others.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

Like other beautiful things in this world, its end (that of a shaft) is to be beautiful; and, in proportion to its beauty, it receives permission to be otherwise useless. We do not blame emeralds and rubies because we cannot make them into heads of hammers.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become.

Race is precisely of as much consequence in man as it is in any animal.