To be taught to read—what is the use of that, if you know not whether what you read is false or true? To be taught to write or to speak—but what is the use of speaking, if you have nothing to say? To be taught to think—nay, what is the use of being able to think, if you have nothing to think of? But to be taught to see is to gain word and thought at once, and both true.

No amount of pay ever made a good soldier, a good teacher, a good artist, or a good workman.

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

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

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.

A man is one whose body has been trained to be the ready servant of his mind; whose passions are trained to be the servants of his will; who enjoys the beautiful, loves truth, hates wrong, loves to do good, and respects others as himself.