It is among children only, and as children only, that you will find medicine for your healing and true wisdom for your teaching.

Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure from those material sources which are attractive to oar moral nature in its purity and perfection.

If you can draw the stone rightly, everything within reach of art is also within yours.

Without mountains the air could not be purified, nor the flowing of the rivers sustained.

You must get into the habit of looking intensely at words, and assuring yourself of their meaning, syllable by syllable-nay, letter by letter... you might read all the books in the British Museum (if you could live long enough) and remain an utterly "illiterate," undeducated person; but if you read ten pages of a good book, letter by letter, - that is to say, with real accuracy- you are for evermore in some measure an educated person.

... the weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him, and which, worthily used, will be a gift also to his race forever.

Whenever you see want or misery or degradation in this world about you, then be sure either industry has been wanting, or industry has been in error.