No girl who is well bred, 'kind, and modest, is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want of manners, or of heart.

Human work must be done honourably and thoroughly, because we are now Men; whether we ever expect to be angels, or were ever slugs, being practically no matter.

Not without design does God write the music of our lives.

The fact of our deriving constant pleasure from whatever is a type or semblance of divine attributes, and from nothing but that which is so, is the most glorious of all that can be demonstrated of human nature; it not only sets a great gulf of specific separation between us and the lower animals, but it seems a promise of a communion ultimately deep, close, and conscious, with the Being whose darkened manifestations we here feebly and unthinkingly delight in.

... no human actions ever were intended by the Maker of men to be guided by balances of expediency, but by balances of justice.

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.

No amount of pay ever made a good soldier, a good teacher, a good artist, or a good workman.