Death is not a journey into an unknown land; it is a voyage home. We are going, not to a strange country, but to our fathers house.
The secret of language is the secret of sympathy, and its full charm is possible only to the gentle.
They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.
Greater completion marks the progress of art, absolute completion usually its decline.
Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.
The scholar is early acquainted with every department of the impossible.
Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.
Science is the knowledge of constant things, not merely of passing events, and is properly less the knowledge of general laws than of existing facts.
Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves.
Science lives only in quiet places, and with odd people, mostly poor.
In order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.
Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.
Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer.
One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.
All great art is the expression of man’s delight in God’s work, not his own.
People cannot live by lending money to one another.
See that your children be taught, not only the labors of the earth, but the loveliness of it.
The truth of Nature is a part of the truth of God; to him who does not search it out, darkness; to him who does, infinity.
If the design of the building be originally bad, the only virtue it can ever possess will be signs of antiquity.
The beginning and almost the end of all good law is that everyone shall work for their bread and receive good bread for their work.