Teach the children! It is painting in fresco.

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

Everything is beautiful seen from the point of the intellect, or as truth. But all is sour if seen as experience.

There is nothing in history to parallel the influence of Jesus Christ.

There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.

A good intention clothes itself with sudden power. When a god wishes to ride, any chip or pebble will bud and shoot out winged feet, and serve him for a horse.

To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same fields, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again.