Every hue throughout your work is altered by every touch you add in other places.

There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals.

Once thoroughly our own, the knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

God never imposes a duty without giving time to do it.

Many thoughts are so dependent upon the language in which they are clothed that they would lose half their beauty if otherwise expressed.

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

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.