The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one.

Every duty we omit obscures some truth we should have known.

Of all God's gifts to the sighted man, color is holiest, the most divine, the most solemn.

It is better to be nobly remembered than nobly born.

It’s unwise to pay too much, but it’s worse to pay too little.

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.

No one can do me any good by loving me; I have more love than I need or could do any good with; but people do me good by making me love them - which isn't easy.