No one can do me any good by loving me; I have more love than I need or could do any good with; but people do me good by making me love them - which isn't easy.
I know well that happiness is in little things.
The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as the greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure.
Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.
The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.
There is no wealth but life.
God alone can finish.
Absolute and entire ugliness is rare.
The secret of language is the secret of sympathy and its full charm is possible only to the gentle.
When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work, as the color - petals out of a fruitful flower.
No architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
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.
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies for instance.
The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.
The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
The beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue expressed by it.
If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.
I believe the first test of a truly great man is his humility.
Cheerfulness is as natural to the heart of man in strong health as color to his cheek; and wherever there is habitual gloom there must be either bad air, unwholesome food, improperly severe labor or erring habits of life.
Fine are is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
The weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him and which worthily used will be a gift also to his race.
Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little need of reform in our prisons.
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
To live is nothing, unless to live be to know Him by whom we live.
All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another; and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it.
God gives us always strength enough, and sense enough, for everything He wants us to do.
Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package.
To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
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