All really great pictures exhibit the general habits of nature, manifested in some peculiar, rare, and beautiful way.

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.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

When the whole world turns clown, and paints itself red with its own hearts blood instead of vermilion, it is something else than comic.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

... the weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him, and which, worthily used, will be a gift also to his race forever.

Another of the strange and evil tendencies of the present day is the decoration of the railroad station... There was never more flagrant nor impertinent folly than the smallest portion of ornament in anything connected with the railroads... Railroad architecture has or would have a dignity of its own if it were only left to its work.