High ideals make a people strong. … decay comes when ideals wane. - Louis Sullivan

An art of expression should begin with childhood, and the lucid use of one's mother tongue should be typical of that art. The sense of reality should be strengthened from the beginning, yet by no means at the cost of those lofty illusions we call patriotism, veneration, love.

The tyranny alike of church and state has been curbed, and true power is now known to reside where forever it must remain — in the people.

What are books but folly, and what is an education but an arrant hypocrisy, and what is art but a curse when they touch not the heart and impel it not to action?