The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.

Not without design does God write the music of our lives. Be it ours to learn the time, and not be discouraged at the rests. If we say sadly to ourselves, "There is no music in a rest," let us not forget " there is the making of music in it." The making of music is often a slow and painful process in this life. How patiently God works to teach us! How long He waits for us to learn the lesson!

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.

It is a matter of the simplest demonstration, that no man can be really appreciated but by his equal or superior.

Remember always, in painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter will be your manner, and the fewer your words; and in painting, as in all the arts and acts of life the secret of high success will be found, not in a fretful and various excellence, but in a quiet singleness of justly chosen aim.

No nation can last which has made a mob of itself, however generous at heart.