All that I have accomplished ... has been by that plodding, patient, persevering process of accretion which builds the ant heap particle by particle,….

No human being can come into this world without increasing or diminishing the sum total of human happiness..

Our minds are like certain vehicles,--when they have little to carry they make much noise about it, but when heavily loaded they run quietly..

Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and Responsibility of our existence..

Kindness is the music of Good Will to men, and on this harp the smallest fingers may play heaven's sweetest tunes on earth..

All the beautiful orders of architecture and creations of the pencil, all the conceptions of the beautiful in nature and art and humanity, are invent….

Be ever gentle with the children God has given you; watch over them constantly; reprove them earnestly, but not in anger. In the forcible language of….

Those orators who give us much noise and many words, but little argument and less wit, and who are the loudest when least lucid, should take a lesson….

Amongst the instrumentalities of love and peace, surely there can be no sweeter, softer, more effective voice than that of gentle, peace-breathing mu….

Knowledge cannot be stolen from us. It cannot be bought or sold. We may be poor, and the sheriff may come and sell our furniture, or drive away our c….