Let no one think or maintain that a person can search too far or be too well studied in either the book of God's word or the book of God's works.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

In one and the same fire, clay grows hard and wax melts.

Nay, number itself in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for, as Virgil saith, It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be.

I feel ever so strongly that an artist must be nourished by his passions and his despairs. These things alter an artist whether for the good or the better or the worse. It must alter him. The feelings of desperation and unhappiness are more useful to an artist than the feeling of contentment, because desperation and unhappiness stretch your whole sensibility.

The bee enclosed and through the amber shown Seems buried in the juice which was his own.