The beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue expressed by it.
It's unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little. Whenyou pay too much, you lose a little money - that's all. When you paytoo little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing youb...
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.
How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?
The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.
When men are rightly occupied their amusement grows out of their work as the color-petals out of a fruitful flower.
I know well that happiness is in little things.
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless peacocks and lilies for instance.
Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.
Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.
No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.
No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.
All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.
In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
Whether for life or death, do your own work well.
Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.
No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.
Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.
The child who desires education will be bettered by it the child who dislikes it disgraced.
There is hardly anything in the world that some man can't make a little worse and sell a little cheaper and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.