Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

I will not kill or hurt any living creature needlessly, nor destroy any beautiful thing, but will strive to save and comfort all gentle life, and guard and perfect all natural beauty upon the earth.

The history of humanity is not the history of its wars, but the history of its households.

See! This our fathers did for us.

Commerce is the agency by which the power of choice is obtained.

The true end of education is not only to make the young learned, but to make them love learning; not only to make them industrious, but to make them love industry; not only to make them virtuous, but to make them love virtue; not only to make them just, but to make them hunger and thirst after justice.

Milton saw not, and Beethoven heard not, but the sense of beauty was upon them, and they fain must speak.