God is a being who gives everything but punishment in over measure.

Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.

Morality must always precede and accompany religion, and yet religion is much more than morality.

Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death.

To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them - the whole leaf and root tribe. Not alone when they are in their glory, but in whatever state they are - in leaf, or rimed with frost, or powdered with snow, or crystal-sheathed in ice, or in severe outline stripped and bare against a November sky - we love them.

The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.

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