In the range of inorganic nature. I doubt if any object can be found more perfectly beautiful than a fresh, deep snowdrift, seen under warm light.

Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.

He who has once stood beside the grave, to look back upon the companionship which has been forever closed, feeling how impotent there are the wild love, or the keen sorrow, to give one instant's pleasure to the pulseless heart, or atone in the lowest measure to the departed spirit for the hour of unkindness, will scarcely for the future incur that debt to the heart which can only be discharged to the dust.

The noble grotesque involves the true appreciation of beauty.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant well-being, and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.

Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.