All are to be men of genius in their degree,--rivulets or rivers, it does not matter, so that the souls be clear and pure; not dead walls encompassing dead heaps of things, known and numbered, but running waters in the sweet wilderness of things unnumbered and unknown, conscious only of the living banks, on which they partly refresh and partly reflect the flowers, and so pass on.

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

Everything that you can see in the world around you presents itself to your eyes only as an arrangement of patches of different colors.

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him.

Much of the character of everyman may be read in his house.

The art of drawing which is of more real importance to the human race than that of writing...should be taught to every child just as writing is.