Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.
All men who have sense and feeling are being continually helped; they are taught by every person they meet, and enriched by everything that falls in their way. The greatest, is he who has been oftenest aided. Originality is the observing eye.
No girl who is well bred, 'kind, and modest, is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want of manners, or of heart.
Being thus prepared for us in all ways, and made beautiful, and good for food, and for building, and for instruments of our hands, this race of plants, deserving boundless affection and admiration from us, becomes, in proportion to their obtaining it, a nearly perfect test of our being in right temper of mind and way of life; so that no one can be far wrong in either who loves trees enough, and everyone is assuredly wrong in both who does not love them, if his life has brought them in his way.
Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.
Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book.
You can only possess beauty through understanding it.
Don't just look at buildings ... watch them.
The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
Obey something, and you will have a chance to learn what is best to obey. But if you begin by obeying nothing, you will end by obeying the devil and all his invited friends.
You talk of the scythe of Time, and the tooth of Time: I tell you, Time is scytheless and toothless; it is we who gnaw like the worm - we who smite like the scythe. It is ourselves who abolish - ourselves who consume: we are the mildew, and the flame.
The entire object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy the right things — not merely industrious, but to love industry — not merely learned, but to love knowledge — not merely pure, but to love purity — not merely just, but to hunger and thirst after justice.
the art of becoming 'rich', in the common sense, is not absolutely nor finally the art of accumulating much money for ourselves, but also of contriving that our neighbour shall have less. In accurate terms, it is 'the art of establishing the maximum inequality in your own favour'.
What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant well-being, and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.
Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.
That man is always happy who is in the presence of something which he cannot know to the full, which he is always going on to know.
Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.
The plea of ignorance will never take away our responsibilities.
Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth.
Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him.
Do justice to your brother (you can do that, whether you love him or not), and you will come to love him. But do injustice to him because you don't love him, and you will come to hate him.
The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.
The true work of a critic is not to make his hearer believe him, but agree with him.
Compulsory education... It is a painful, continual, and difficult work; to be done by kindness, by watching, by warning, by precept, and by praise, — but above all — by example.
No one can ask honestly or hopefully to be delivered from temptation unless he has himself honestly and firmly determined to do the best he can to keep out of it.
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