Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory.

The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.

To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgment of others.

And when the echoes had ceased, like a sense of pain was the silence.

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

Don Quixote thought he could have made beautiful bird-cages and toothpicks if his brain had not been so full of ideas of chivalry. Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.