Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless.

Education...is a painful, continual and difficult work to be done in kindness, by watching, by warning,... by praise, but above all -- by example.

Without seeking, truth cannot be known at all. It can neither be declared from pulpits, nor set down in articles, nor in any wise prepared and sold in packages ready for use. Truth must be ground for every man by itself out of it such, with such help as he can get, indeed, but not without stern labor of his own.

An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.

It is a good and safe rule to sojourn in every place as if you meant to spend your life there, never omitting an opportunity of doing a kindness, or speaking a true word, or making a friend.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

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.

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

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