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 anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

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.

I will not kill or hurt any living creature needlessly, nor destroy any beautiful thing, but will strive to save and comfort all gentle life, and guard and perfect all natural beauty upon the earth.

Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.

In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong.

We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts.