Punishment is the last and least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.
You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.
A book worth reading is worth buying.
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for instance.
There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply. The person who buys on price alone is this man's lawful prey.
The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.
Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts--the book of their deeds, the book of their words, and the book of their art.
Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.
