In order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves; and art exclusively with things as they affect the human sense and human soul.

What is really desired, under the name of riches, is essentially, power over men ... this power ... is in direct proportion to the poverty of the men over whom it is exercised, and in inverse proportion to the number of persons who are as rich as ourselves.

No girl who is well bred, 'kind, and modest, is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want of manners, or of heart.

I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.

All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.

Every duty we omit obscures some truth we should have known.