All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another, and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it.

One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

It is among children only, and as children only, that you will find medicine for your healing and true wisdom for your teaching.

Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity.

Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality.

Race is precisely of as much consequence in man as it is in any animal.

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