A gentleman's first characteristic is that fineness of structure in the body which renders it capable of the most delicate sensation; and of structure in the mind which renders it capable of the most delicate sympathies; one may say simply "fineness of nature.

The beginning and almost the end of all good law is that everyone shall work for their bread and receive good bread for their work.

Courage, so far as it is a sign of race, is peculiarly the mark of a gentleman or a lady; but it becomes vulgar if rude or insensitive, while timidity is not vulgar, if it be a characteristic of race or fineness of make. A fawn is not vulgar in being timid, nor a crocodile "gentle" because courageous.

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

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

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