Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.

There are no laws by which we can write Iliads.

Civilization is the making of civil persons.

Order and system are nobler things than power.

Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth. I find this more and more every day: an infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all the truly great men. It is sure to involve a relative intensity of disdain towards base things, and an appearance of sternness and arrogance in the eyes of all hard, stupid, and vulgar people

Anything which elevates the mind is sublime. Greatness of matter, space, power, virtue or beauty, are all sublime.

Your honesty is not to be based either on religion or policy. Both your religion and policy must be based on it. Your honesty must be based, as the sun is, in vacant heaven; poised, as the lights in the firmament, which have rule over the day and over the night.