“Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.”
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Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.
To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.