"The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced."

"A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort."

"Nothing can be beautiful which is not true."

"The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition."

"The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it."

"The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man."

"No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart."

"It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends."

"It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately."

"How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?"

"What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?"

"The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it."

"Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever."

"Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs."

"An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome."

"Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons."

"To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also."

"No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases."

"Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make."

"A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it."

"In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes."

"Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light."

"Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions."

"Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade."

"Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them."

"Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor."

"Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel."

"Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand."

"It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty."

"One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live."

"He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas."

"All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time."

"When we build, let us think that we build for ever."

"The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion."

"Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness."

"No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change."

"Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride."

"I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility."

"Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes."

"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."

"Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close."

"Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them."

"An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind."

"The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work."

"There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather."

"There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey."

"Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them."

"To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education."

"No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder."

"It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all that he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his readers is sure to skip them."