Labor is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers under the direction and control of the will.
A mind grows by what it feeds on.
Perfect love holds the secret of the world’s perfect liberty.
God give us men! A time like this demands. Strong minds, great hearts, true faith, and ready hands; Men whom the lust of office does not kill; Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy; Men who possess opinions and a will; Men who have honor; men who will not die.
The temple of art is built in words.
Heaven is not reached at a single bound. But we build the ladder by which we rise. From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies, And we mount to its summit round by round.
Laws are the very bulkwarks of liberty; they define every man’s rights, and defend the individual liberties of all men.
The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all their significance from the light, and suggestive only of the temple’s uses.
Every man who can be a first-rate something – as every man can be who is a man at all – has no right to be a fifth-rate something; for a fifth-rate something is not better than a first-rate nothing.
Artists are nearest God. Into their souls he breathes his life, and from their hands it comes in fair, articulate forms to bless the world.
A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic is to life.
The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on.
The choicest thing this world has for a man is affection.
Life is before you,- not earthly life alone, but life- a thread running interminably through the warp of eternity.
The love that gushes for all is the real elixir of life – the fountain of bodily longevity. It is the lack of this that always produces the feeling of age.
The most beautiful sight this earth affords is a man or woman so filled with love that duty is only a name, and its performance the natural outflow and expression of the love which has become the central principle of their life.
Work and wait, work and wait is what God says to us in creation.
Who never walks save where he sees men’s tracks makes no discoveries.
Communion is the law of growth, and homes only thrive when they sustain relations with each other.
In my judgment, a great mistake has been made by well meaning and zealous men, through treating error and infidelity with altogether too much respect.