Much of the character of everyman may be read in his house.

An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.

Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the laws of death.

To cultivate sympathy you must be among living creatures, and thinking about them; and to cultivate admiration, you must be among beautiful things and looking at them.

There is no process of amalgamation by which opinions, wrong individually, can become right merely by their multitude.

God shows us in Himself, strange as it may seem, not only authoritative perfection, but even the perfection of obedience--an obedience to His own laws; and in the cumbrous movement of those unwieldiest of his creatures we are reminded, even in His divine essence, of that attribute of uprightness in the human creature "that sweareth to his own hurt and changeth not.

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