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

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

Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think.

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

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

The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them.

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.

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

The Bible is the one Book to which any thoughtful man may go with any honest question of life or destiny and find the answer of God by honest searching.

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.

The measure of any great civilization is its cities and a measure of a city's greatness is to be found in the quality of its public spaces, its parks and squares.

Genius is only a superior power of seeing.

There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals.

Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer.

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

If you want knowledge, you must toil for it; if food, you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil for it: toil is the law.

Living without an aim, is like sailing without a compass.

The best work never was and never will be done for money.