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An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.
I desire ... to leave this one great fact clearly stated. THERE IS NO WEALTH BUT LIFE.
Greater completion marks the progress of art, absolute completion usually its decline.
There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals.
The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.
Mighty of heart, mighty of mind, magnanimous-to be this is indeed to be great in life.
If you can draw the stone rightly, everything within reach of art is also within yours.
He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great.
A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.
Ornamentation is the principal part of architecture, considered as a subject of fine art.
Without mountains the air could not be purified, nor the flowing of the rivers sustained.
To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality.
That which seems to be wealth may in verity be only the gilded index of far reaching ruin
You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor.
The history of humanity is not the history of its wars, but the history of its households.
All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.
Of all God's gifts to the sighted man, color is holiest, the most divine, the most solemn.
Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.
One of the worst diseases to which the human creature is liable is its disease of thinking.
I fear uniformity. You cannot manufacture great men any more than you can manufacture gold.
All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.
The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.
No amount of pay ever made a good soldier, a good teacher, a good artist, or a good workman.
Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.
What is poetry? The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions.
See that your children be taught, not only the labors of the earth, but the loveliness of it.
The sculptor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature.
The object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy them
Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.
All great song, from the first day when human lips contrived syllables, has been sincere song.
Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.
If the thing is impossible, you need not trouble yourselves about it; if possible, try for it.
Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.
The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.
The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.
Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book.
Unless we perform divine service with every willing act of our life, we never perform it at all.
Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.
That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.
The Training which Makes Men Happiest in themselves ... also Makes Them Most Serviceable to Others
Ship of the line is the most honourable thing that man, as a gregarious animal, has ever produced.
The secret of language is the secret of sympathy, and its full charm is possible only to the gentle
Science studies the relations of things to each other: but art studies only their relations to man.
The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.
There is no action so slight or so mean but it may be done to a great purpose, and ennobled thereby.
Come, ye cold winds, at January's call, On whistling wings, and with white flakes bestrew The earth.
Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.
Better a child should be ignorant of a thousand truths than have consecrated in its heart a single lie.
Why is one man richer than another? Because he is more industrious, more persevering and more sagacious.