The temple of art is built in words.

Communion is the law of growth, and homes only thrive when they sustain relations with each other.

All that has been done to weaken the foundation of an implicit faith in the Bible, as a whole, has been at the expense of the sense of religious obligation, and at the cost of human happiness.

Perfect love holds the secret of the world's perfect liberty.

Doubtless the world is wicked enough; but it will not be improved by the extension of a spirit which self-righteously sees more to reform outside of itself than in itself.

Artists are nearest God. Into their souls he breathes his life, and from their hands it comes in fair, articulate forms to bless the world.

Who never walks save where he sees men's tracks makes no discoveries.