When God shuts a door, He opens a window.

When I have been unhappy, I have heard an opera... and it seemed the shrieking of winds; when I am happy, a sparrow's chirp is delicious to me. But it is not the chirp that makes me happy, but I that make it sweet.

Remember always, in painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter will be your manner, and the fewer your words; and in painting, as in all the arts and acts of life the secret of high success will be found, not in a fretful and various excellence, but in a quiet singleness of justly chosen aim.

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

Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.