Good thoughts are no better than good dreams if you don't follow through.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

If in the least particular, one could derange the order of nature, who would accept the gift of life?

Let him be great, and love shall follow him. Nothing is more deeply punished than the neglect of the affinities by which alone society should be formed, and the insane levity of choosing associates by others eyes.

People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad.

Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy, but in the state, and in the schools, it is indispensable to resist the consolidation ofall men into a few men.

Every person has his or her own vocation-talent is the call.