A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards ….

Teach the children! It is painting in fresco..

I believe that our own experience instructs us that the secret of Education lies in respecting the pupil..

The two parties which divide the State, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ….

If you are wise, you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with more..

Beauty is the pilot of the young soul..

The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit..

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind tho….

There is always a best way of doing everything..

Society is infected with rude, cynical, restless, and frivolous persons who prey upon the rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated into good man….

Activity is contagious..

Every action has an ancestor of a thought..

We legislate against forestalling and monopoly; we would have a common granary for the poor; but the selfishness which hoards thecorn for high prices….

Every noble activity makes room for itself..

Persecution readily knits friendship between its victims..

No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love..

O friend, never strike sail to a fear!.

But there is no end to the praise of books, to the value of the library. Who shall estimate their influence on our population where all the millions ….

But when you have chosen your part, abide by it, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world..

It has been the office of art to educate the perception of beauty. We are immersed in beauty but our eyes have no clear vision..

Eloquence shows the power and possibility of man. There is one of whom we took no note, but on a certain occasion it appears that he has a secret vir….