Of all God's gifts to the sighted man, color is holiest, the most divine, the most solemn.

The step between practical and theoretic science, is the step between the miner and the geologist, the apocathecary and the chemist.

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.

The man who can see all gray, and red, and purples in a peach, will paint the peach rightly round, and rightly altogether. But the man who has only studied its roundness may not see its purples and grays, and if he does not will never get it to look like a peach; so that great power over color is always a sign of large general art-intellect.

What is poetry? The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions.

Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.