Education is the leading human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them; and these two objects are always attainable together, and by the same means; the training which makes man happiest in themselves also makes them most serviceable to others.

Society has sacrificed its virtues to the Goddess of Getting Along.

I had no companions to quarrel with, nobody to assist, and nobody to thank... the evil consequence of all this was not, however, what might perhaps have been expected, that I grew up selfish or non affectionate; but that, when affection did come, it came with a violence utterly rampant and unmanageable.

Come, ye cold winds, at January's call, On whistling wings, and with white flakes bestrew The earth.

The true grotesque being the expression of the repose or play of a serious mind, there is a false grotesque opposed to it, which is the result of the full exertion of a frivolous one.

God intends no man to live in this world without working, but it seems to me no less evident that He intends every man to be happy in his work.

All really great pictures exhibit the general habits of nature, manifested in some peculiar, rare, and beautiful way.