As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all but that splendor of dress is a crime.

Compulsory education... It is a painful, continual, and difficult work; to be done by kindness, by watching, by warning, by precept, and by praise, — but above all — by example.

There is no solemnity so deep, to a right-thinking creature, as that of dawn.

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

We are only advancing in life, whose hearts are getting softer, our blood warmer, our brains quicker, and our spirits entering into living peace.

On the whole, it is patience which makes the final difference between those who succeed or fail in all things. All the greatest people have it in an infinite degree, and among the less, the patient weak ones always conquer the impatient strong.

No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.