So far as I have myself observed, the distinctive character of a child is to live always in the tangible present.

Your labor only may be sold, your soul must not.

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

The man who accepts the laissez-faire doctrine would allow his garden to grow wild so that roses might fight it out with the weeds and the fittest might survive.

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

All great song, from the first day when human lips contrived syllables, has been sincere song.