In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong honor that try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes.

• Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort.
• We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we can not put our heart.
• What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.
• I believe the first test of a truly great man is his humility.
• We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears
• Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.
• It is written on the arched sky It looks out from every star It is the poetry of Nature It is that which uplifts the spirit within us.
• When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
• In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong honor that try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes.
• Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.