The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as the greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure.

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

Every hue throughout your work is altered by every touch you add in other places.

Let every dawn of morning be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close: — then let every one of these short lives leave its sure record of some kindly thing done for others — some goodly strength or knowledge gained for yourselves.

The plea of ignorance will never take away our responsibilities.

It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.

Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book.