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

It is a shallow criticism that would define poetry as confined to literary productions in rhyme and meter rhythm. The written poem is only poetry talking, and the statue, the picture, and the musical composition are poetry acting. Milton and Goethe, at their desks, were not more truly poets than Phidias with his chisel, Raphael at his easel, or deaf Beethoven bending over his piano, inventing and producing strains, which he himself could never hope to hear.

There is no process of amalgamation by which opinions, wrong individually, can become right merely by their multitude.

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.

This is the true nature of home - it is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from all injury, but from all terror, doubt, and division.

All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another, and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it.

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