Not without design does God write the music of our lives.

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

There is rough work to be done, and rough men must do it; there is gentle work to be done, and gentlemen must do it.

Once thoroughly our own, the knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

If some people really see angels where others see only empty space, let them paint the angels: only let not anybody else think they can paint an angel too, on any calculated principles of the angelic.

Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.

All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be effort, and the law of human judgment, mercy.