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

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

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.

Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.

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

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.