It’s unwise to pay too much, but it’s worse to pay too little.

The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.

And remember, child, that nothing is ever done beautifully, which is done in rivalship; or nobly, which is done in pride.

No nation can last which has made a mob of itself, however generous at heart.

Every human action gains in honor, in grace, in all true magnificence, by its regard to things that are to come. It is the far sight, the quiet and confident patience, that, above all other attributes, separate man from man, and near him to his Maker; and there is no action nor art, whose majesty we may not measure by this test.

The virtue of the imagination is its reaching, by intuition and intensity, a more essential truth than is seen at the surface of things.