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

True taste is forever growing, learning, reading, worshipping, laying its hand upon its mouth because it is astonished, casting its shoes from off its feet because it finds all ground holy.

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

Every great man is always being helped by everybody, for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

The measure of any great civilization is its cities and a measure of a city's greatness is to be found in the quality of its public spaces, its parks and squares.

You may chisel a boy into shape, as you would a rock, or hammer him into it, if he be of a better kind, as you would a piece of bronze. But you cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does.

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