I do not mean to call an elephant a vulgar animal, but if you think about him carefully, you will find that his nonvulgarity consists in such gentleness as is possible to elephantine nature-not in his insensitive hide, nor in his clumsy foot, but in the way he will lift his foot if a child lies in his way; and in his sensitive trunk, and still more sensitive mind, and capability of pique on points of honor.

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

That which seems to be wealth may in verity be only the gilded index of far reaching ruin

To do your own work well, whether it be for life or death.

Labour without joy is base. Labour without sorrow is base. Sorrow without labour is base. Joy without labour is base.

The object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy them

People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser...and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic.