"If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be."
"The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art."
"Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go."
"The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it."
"Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!"
"He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth."