Be ever gentle with the children God has given you; watch over them constantly; reprove them earnestly, but not in anger. In the forcible language of Scripture, "Be not bitter against them." "Yes, they are good boys," I once heard… — Elihu Burritt Copy Share Image
All the beautiful orders of architecture and creations of the pencil, all the conceptions of the beautiful in nature and art and humanity, are inventions extorted, as it were, from the mind to extend and increase the pleasures of sense. — Elihu Burritt Copy Share Image
Amongst the instrumentalities of love and peace, surely there can be no sweeter, softer, more effective voice than that of gentle, peace-breathing music. — Elihu Burritt Copy Share Image
No human being can come into this world without increasing or diminishing the sum total of human happiness. — Elihu Burritt Copy Share Image
Our minds are like certain vehicles,--when they have little to carry they make much noise about it, but when heavily loaded they run quietly. — Elihu Burritt Copy Share Image
Knowledge cannot be stolen from us. It cannot be bought or sold. We may be poor, and the sheriff may come and sell our… — Elihu Burritt Copy Share Image
Those orators who give us much noise and many words, but little argument and less wit, and who are the loudest when least lucid,… — Elihu Burritt Copy Share Image
Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and Responsibility of our existence. — Elihu Burritt Copy Share Image
All that I have accomplished ... has been by that plodding, patient, persevering process of accretion which builds the ant heap particle by particle,… — Elihu Burritt Copy Share Image
Be ever gentle with the children God has given you; watch over them constantly; reprove them earnestly, but not in anger. In the forcible… — Elihu Burritt Copy Share Image
Kindness is the music of Good Will to men, and on this harp the smallest fingers may play heaven's sweetest tunes on earth. — Elihu Burritt Copy Share Image
All the beautiful orders of architecture and creations of the pencil, all the conceptions of the beautiful in nature and art and humanity, are… — Elihu Burritt Copy Share Image
