The great artist and thinker are the simplifiers.

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.

He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.

From every spot on earth we are equally near heaven and the infinite.

It is work which gives flavor to life.

Peace is not in itself a dream, but we know it only as the result of a momentary equilibrium--an accident.

There is no repose for the mind except in the absolute; for feeling, except in the infinite; for the soul, except in the divine.