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
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
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
