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

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

Order and system are nobler things than power.

Why is one man richer than another? Because he is more industrious, more persevering and more sagacious.

Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure from those material sources which are attractive to oar moral nature in its purity and perfection.

The history of humanity is not the history of its wars, but the history of its households.

Compulsory education... It is a painful, continual, and difficult work; to be done by kindness, by watching, by warning, by precept, and by praise, — but above all — by example.