"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."

"The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do."

"No one can become rich by the efforts of only their toil, but only by the discovery of some method of taxing the labor of others."

"Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future"

"Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith."

"We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate being was spread between him and its darkness, in which were joined in a subdued measure, the stability and insensibility of the earth, and the passion and perishing of mankind."

"Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime."

"It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us."

"A book worth reading is worth buying."

"Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder."

"Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather."

"Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities."

"There is no wealth but life."

"Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation."

"We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it."

"Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth."

"Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together."

"A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money."

"The entire object of true education, is to make people not merely do the right thing, but to enjoy right things; not merely industrious, but to love industry; not merely learned, but to love knowledge."

"Vain, very vain is my search to find; that happiness which only centers in the mind."

"You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam."

"Those that think must govern those that toil."