Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book.

A man is one whose body has been trained to be the ready servant of his mind; whose passions are trained to be the servants of his will; who enjoys the beautiful, loves truth, hates wrong, loves to do good, and respects others as himself.

Many thoughts are so dependent upon the language in which they are clothed that they would lose half their beauty if otherwise expressed.

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

In all things that live there are certain irregularities, and deficiencies which are not only signs of life, but sources of beauty. No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry.

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

Whenever you see want or misery or degradation in this world about you, then be sure either industry has been wanting, or industry has been in error.