For the world is not painted, or adorned, but is from the beginning beautiful; and God has not made some beautiful things, but Beauty is the creator of the universe.

What is well done, I feel as if I did; what is ill-done, I reck not of.

Power obeys reality, and not appearances; power is according to quality, and not quantity.

When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; he has been put on his wits, on his manhood; he has gained facts; learns his ignorance; is cured of the insanity of conceit; has got moderation and real skill.

Who can . . . guess how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes?

An individual has a healthy personality to the exact degree to which they have the propensity to look for the good in every situation.

The pleasure of eloquence is in greatest part owing often to the stimulus of the occasion which produces it- - to the magic of sympathy, which exalts the feeling of each by radiating on him the feeling of all.