Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.

The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.

The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

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.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.