The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it. Votes: 9
All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul. Votes: 0
Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them. Votes: 0
The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it. Votes: 0
That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings. Votes: 0
The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work. Votes: 0
The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions. Votes: 0
Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade. Votes: 0
Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close. Votes: 0
Come, ye cold winds, at January's call, On whistling wings, and with white flakes bestrew The earth. Votes: 0
No amount of pay ever made a good soldier, a good teacher, a good artist, or a good workman. Votes: 0
There is no wealth but life. Votes: 0
Reading and writing are not education if they do not help people to be kind to all creatures Votes: 0
What is poetry? The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions. Votes: 0
The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced. Votes: 0
Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride. Votes: 0
All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time. Votes: 0
I fear uniformity. You cannot manufacture great men any more than you can manufacture gold. Votes: 0
Architecture is the work of nations Votes: 0
The only way to understand the difficult parts of the Bible is first to read and obey the easy ones. Votes: 0
The object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy them Votes: 0
Ship of the line is the most honourable thing that man, as a gregarious animal, has ever produced. Votes: 0
One of the worst diseases to which the human creature is liable is its disease of thinking. Votes: 0
Always stand by form against force. Votes: 0
All great song, from the first day when human lips contrived syllables, has been sincere song. Votes: 0
No day is without its innocent hope. Votes: 0
Work first, and then rest. Votes: 0
If the thing is impossible, you need not trouble yourselves about it; if possible, try for it. Votes: 0
There is no action so slight or so mean but it may be done to a great purpose, and ennobled thereby. Votes: 0
All other passions do occasional good; but when pride puts in its word everything goes wrong. Votes: 0
The secret of language is the secret of sympathy, and its full charm is possible only to the gentle Votes: 0
See that your children be taught, not only the labors of the earth, but the loveliness of it. Votes: 0
Unless we perform divine service with every willing act of our life, we never perform it at all. Votes: 0
The last act crowns the play. Votes: 0
God alone can finish. Votes: 0
Science studies the relations of things to each other: but art studies only their relations to man. Votes: 0
Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book. Votes: 0
The sculptor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature. Votes: 0
See! This our fathers did for us. Votes: 0