Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become.

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.

People cannot live by lending money to one another.

Mighty of heart, mighty of mind, magnanimous-to be this is indeed to be great in life.

Disorder in a drawing-room is vulgar; in an antiquary's study, not; the black battle-stain on a soldier's face is not vulgar, but the dirty face of a housemaid is.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

Death is not a journey into an unknown land; it is a voyage home. We are going, not to a strange country, but to our fathers house.