The man who can see all gray, and red, and purples in a peach, will paint the peach rightly round, and rightly altogether. But the man who has only studied its roundness may not see its purples and grays, and if he does not will never get it to look like a peach; so that great power over color is always a sign of large general art-intellect.

A man is known to his dog by the smell, to his tailor by the coat, to his friend by the smile; each of these know him, but how little or how much depends on the dignity of the intelligence. That which is truly and indeed characteristic of the man is known only to God.

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

No amount of pay ever made a good soldier, a good teacher, a good artist, or a good workman.

The Bible is the one Book to which any thoughtful man may go with any honest question of life or destiny and find the answer of God by honest searching.

People cannot live by lending money to one another.

Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer.