The greatest glory of a building is not in its stones, nor in its gold. Its glory is in its Age, and in that deep sense of voicefulness, of stern watching, of mysterious sympathy... which we feel in walls that have long been washed by the passing waves of humanity.

Compulsory education... It is a painful, continual, and difficult work; to be done by kindness, by watching, by warning, by precept, and by praise, — but above all — by example.

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

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

The Spirit power begins in directing the Animal power to other than egoistic ends.

No one can explain how the notes of a Mozart melody, or the folds of a piece of Titian's drapery, produce their essential effects. If you do not feel it, no one can by reasoning make you feel it.