"There is no such thing on Earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person."

--G.K. Chesterton

​Art credit: Summerlust by Hermann Seeger

"A difference of opinion in one question must not prevent us from working unitedly in those on which we can agree."

--Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Art credit: The First Grief by Daniel Ridgway Knight

"The world's history is a divine poem...to the humble listener--there has been a divine melody running through the song which speaks of hope and peaceful days to come."

--James Garfield

​Art credit: Moulin du Boulonnais au Soleil Couchans by Henri Duhm

"Our liberties are safe until the memories and experiences of the past are blotted out and the Mayflower with its band of pilgrims forgotten, until our public school system has fallen into decay and the nation into ignorance."

--Woodrow Wilson

Art credit: The First Thanksgiving at Plymouth by Jennie A. Brownscombe

"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship."

--Louisa May Alcott

Art Credit: Stormy Sea at Night by Ivan Aivozovsky

"The education of even a small child...does not aim at preparing him for school, but for life."

--Maria Montessori

​Art credit: Getting Ready by Carlton Alfred Smith

"I never let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet."

--Gandhi

Art credit: Gathering Wild Flowers by Philip Richard Morris

"What you make a child love and desire is more important than what you make him learn."
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--Alice O'Grady

Art credit: The Arabian Nights by Lionel Percy Smythe

"Rivers do not drink their own water; trees do not eat their own fruit; the sun does not shine on itself and flowers do not spread their fragrance for themselves.
Living for others is a rule of nature. We are all born to help each other.
No matter how difficult life is...
Life is good when you are happy; but much better when others are happy because of you."

--Pope Frances

Art Credit: Beerensammler by Fritz Ebel

"Fortunate is the person who has been educated to the perception of beauty; he possesses a heritage of which no reverses can rob him...

"A great scientist tells us that there is no natural object in the universe which, if seen as the Master sees it, coupled with all its infinite meaning, its utility and purpose, is not beautiful.

"Beauty is God's handwriting. Just as the most disgusting object, if put under a magnifying glass of sufficient power, would reveal beauties undreamed of, so even the most unlovely environment, the most cruel conditions, will, when viewed through the glass of a trained and disciplined mind, show something of the beautiful and hopeful.

"A life that has been rightly trained will extract sweetness from everything; it will see beauty everywhere."

--Orison Swett Marden

Art credit: Sommarang by Fanny Brate