“Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.”

“It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.”

“A picture is a poem without words.”

“Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.”

“Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.”

“Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.”

“A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.”

“Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.”

“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.”

“The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.”

“Life is largely a matter of expectation.”

“Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.”

“The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.”

“Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.”

“Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.”