Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.
The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.
The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.
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.
The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.
Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.
The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.
Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.
The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.
The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.
That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.
Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.
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.
The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.