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

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

If you want knowledge, you must toil for it; if food, you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil for it: toil is the law.

Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future.

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

Whenever you see want or misery or degradation in this world about you, then be sure either industry has been wanting, or industry has been in error.