The man who perceives life only with his eye, his ear, his hand, and his tongue, is but little higher than the ox or an intelligent dog; but he who has imagination sees things around and above him, as the angels see them.

Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

The diameter of each day is measured by the stretch of thought - not by the rising and setting of the sun.

You can imagine thistle-down so light that when you run after it your running motion would drive it away from you, and that the more you tried to catch it the faster it would fly from your grasp. And it should be with every man, that, when he is chased by troubles, they, chasing, shall raise him higher and higher.

Our moral faculties must be placed highest, else they can no more flourish than could a plant growing under the shade and drip of trees.

Heaven is a place of restless activity, the abode of never-tiring thought.