No man receives the full culture of a man in whom the sensibility to the beautiful is not cherished; and there is no condition of life from which it should be excluded. Of all luxuries this is the cheapest, and the most at hand, and most important to those conditions where coarse labor tends to give grossness to the mind.

The home is the chief school of human virtues.

An earnest purpose finds time, or makes it. It seizes on spare moments, and turns fragments to golden account.

In general, we do well to let an opponent's motives alone. We are seldom just to them. Our own motives on such occasions are often worse than those we assail.

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.

No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.