No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

So far as I have myself observed, the distinctive character of a child is to live always in the tangible present.

The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.

The repose necessary to all beauty is repose, not of inanition, nor of luxury, nor of irresolution, but the repose of magnificent energy and being; in action, the calmness of trust and determination; in rest, the consciousness of duty accomplished and of victory won; and this repose and this felicity can take place as well in the midst of trial and tempest, as beside the waters of comfort.

He who is not actively kind is cruel!