The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Art is based on a strong sentiment of religion,--on a profound and mighty earnestness; hence it is so prone to co-operate with religion.

A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator.

One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man.

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native; your best teacher is there. Where the thing you wish to know is so dominant that you must breathe its very atmosphere, there teaching is moat thorough, and learning is most easy. You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy boat among miners; and so with everything else.

Higher yet and higher out of clouds and night, nearer yet and nearer rising to the light - light, serene and holy where my soul may rest, purified and lowly, sanctified and blest.