When a bee stings, she dies. She cannot sting and live. When men sting, their better selves die. Every sting kills a better instinct. Men must not turn bees and kill themselves in stinging others.

As you work, the mood grows on you. There are certain images which suddenly get hold of me and I really want to do them. But it's true to say that the excitement and possibilities are in the working and obviously can only come in the working.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

The dignity of this end of endowment of man's life with new commodity appeareth by the estimation that antiquity made of such as guided thereunto ; for whereas founders of states, lawgivers, extirpators of tyrants, fathers of the people, were honoured but with the titles of demigods, inventors ere ever consecrated among the gods themselves.

Parents who wish to train up their children in the way they should go must go in the way in which they would have their children go.

Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.

All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness.