“To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.”
“The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most.”
“Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.”
“A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.”
“Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.”
“The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.”
“Spiritual power begins by directing animal power to other than egoistic ends.”
“They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.”
“What is the cheapest to you now is likely to be the dearest to you in the end.”
“The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.”
“They are good furniture pictures, unworthy of praise, and undeserving of blame.”
“The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.”
“No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.”
“A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.”
“You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.”
“Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.”
“Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.”
“The higher a man stands, the more the word ''vulgar'' becomes unintelligible to him.”
“An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.”
“The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.”
“You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor.”
“Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.”
“The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.”
“Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.”
“Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.”
“The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.”
“The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.”
“The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.”
“Of all God's gifts to the sight of man, colour is the holiest, the most divine, the most solemn.”
“The secret of language is the secret of sympathy and its full charm is possible only to the gentle.”