The history of man is essentially zoological; it becomes human late in the day, and then only in the beautiful souls, the souls alive to justice, goodness, enthusiasm, and devotion. The angel shows itself rarely and with difficulty through the highly-organized brute.

Oh be swift to live, make haste to be kind.

To depersonalize man is the dominant drift of our times.

The stationary condition is the beginning of the end

The art which is grand and yet simple is that which presupposes the greatest elevation both in artist and in public.

Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.

If man was what he ought to be, he would be adored by the animals.