1. “To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.”
2. “No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever free as a fish.”
3. “You may either win your peace or buy it; by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.”
4. “Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.”
5. “There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.”
6. “Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.”
7. “Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.”
8. “The higher the man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.”
9. “When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.”
10. “A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.”
11. “The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.”
12. “Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.”
13. “Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.”
14. “The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.”
15. “The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.”
