The Object Of True Education Is To

Depend Upon It, The First Universal Characteristic Of All Great Art Is Tenderness, As The Second Is Truth. I Find This More And More Every Day: An Infinitude Of Tenderness Is The Chief Gift And Inheritance Of All The Truly Great Men. It Is Sure To Involve A Relative Intensity Of Disdain Towards Base Things, And An Appearance Of Sternness And Arrogance In The Eyes Of All Hard, Stupid, And Vulgar People

When We Build, Let Us Think That We Build Forever.

Remember That The Most Beautiful Things In The World Are The Most Useless; Peacocks And Lilies For Instance.

To Banish Imperfection Is To Destroy Expression, To Check Exertion, To Paralyze Vitality.

I Fear Uniformity. You Cannot Manufacture Great Men Any More Than You Can Manufacture Gold.