Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the laws of death.

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.

The man who accepts the laissez-faire doctrine would allow his garden to grow wild so that roses might fight it out with the weeds and the fittest might survive.

The true end of education is not only to make the young learned, but to make them love learning; not only to make them industrious, but to make them love industry; not only to make them virtuous, but to make them love virtue; not only to make them just, but to make them hunger and thirst after justice.

The power of association is stronger than the power of beauty; therefore, the power of association is the power of beauty.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

God gives us always strength enough, and sense enough, for what He wants us to do; if we either tire ourselves or puzzle ourselves, it is our own fault.