I would have, then, our ordinary dwelling-houses built to last, and built to be lovely; as rich and full of pleasantness as may be within and without: . . . with such differences as might suit and express each man's character and occupation, and partly his history.

I do not mean to call an elephant a vulgar animal, but if you think about him carefully, you will find that his nonvulgarity consists in such gentleness as is possible to elephantine nature-not in his insensitive hide, nor in his clumsy foot, but in the way he will lift his foot if a child lies in his way; and in his sensitive trunk, and still more sensitive mind, and capability of pique on points of honor.

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

The object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy them

The question is not what man can scorn, or disparage, or find fault with, but what he can love, and value, and appreciate.

Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself -my disgust at her barbarity -clumsiness -darkness -bitter mockery of herself -is the most desolating.

Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.