You may assuredly find perfect peace, if you are resolved to do that which your Lord has plainly required – and content that He should indeed require no more of you – than to do justice, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with Him.
Curiosity is a gift, a capacity of pleasure in knowing, which if you destroy, you make yourself cold and dull.
Milton saw not, and Beethoven heard not, but the sense of beauty was upon them, and they fain must speak.
The power of association is stronger than the power of beauty; therefore, the power of association is the power of beauty.
In one point of view, Gothic is not only the best, but the only rational architecture, as being that which can fit itself most easily to all services, vulgar or noble.
A forest of all manner of trees is poor, if not disagreeable, in effect; a mass of one species of tree is sublime.
The beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue expressed by it.
Whatever merit there is in anything that I have written is simply due to the fact that when I was a child my mother daily read me a part of the Bible and daily made me learn a part of it by heart.
Kind hearts are the garden, kind thoughts are the roots, kind words are the blossoms, kind deeds are the fruit.
Obey something, and you will have a chance to learn what is best to obey. But if you begin by obeying nothing, you will end by obeying the devil and all his invited friends.
Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.
Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.
All other passions do occasional good; but when pride puts in its word everything goes wrong.
The actual flower is the plant’s highest fulfilment, and are not here exclusively for herbaria, county floras and plant geography: they are here first of all for delight.
All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be effort, and the law of human judgment, mercy.
He thinks by infection, catching an opinion like a cold.
What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant well-being, and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.
God intends no man to live in this world without working, but it seems to me no less evident that He intends every man to be happy in his work.
Trust thou thy Love: if she be proud, is she not sweet? Trust thou thy love: if she be mute, is she not pure? Lay thou thy soul full in her hands, low at her feet- Fail, Sun and Breath!-yet, for thy peace, she shall endure.
In the range of inorganic nature. I doubt if any object can be found more perfectly beautiful than a fresh, deep snowdrift, seen under warm light.