The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

It is only by labour that thought can be made healthy, and only by thought that labour can be made happy, and the two cannot be separated with impunity.

An artist should be well read in the best books, and thoroughly high bred, both in heart and bearing. In a word, he should be fit for the best society, and should keef out of it.

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

Obedience is, indeed, founded on a kind of freedom, else it would become mere subjugation, but that freedom is only granted that obedience may be more perfect; and thus while a measure of license is necessary to exhibit the individual energies of things, the fairness and pleasantness and perfection of them all consist in their restraint.

There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals.

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.