Never to tire, never to grow cold; to be patient, sympathetic, tender; to look for the budding flower and the opening heart; to hope always; like God, to love always--this is duty.
Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.
In order to see Christianity, one must forget all the Christians.
Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.
If man was what he ought to be, he would be adored by the animals.
Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.