See! This our fathers did for us.
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become.
Civilization is the making of civil persons.
To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality.
When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for our use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will look upon with praise and thanksgiving in their hearts.
No girl who is well bred, 'kind, and modest, is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want of manners, or of heart.