In health of mind and body, men should see with their own eyes, hear and speak without trumpets, walk on their feet, not on wheels, and work and war with their arms, not with engine-beams, nor rifles warranted to kill twenty men at a shot before you can see them.

I know few Christians so convinced of the splendor of the rooms in their Father's house, as to be happier when their friends are called to those mansions... Nor has the Church's ardent "desire to depart, and be with Christ," ever cured it of the singular habit of putting on mourning for every person summoned to such departure.

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another, and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it.

An unimaginative person can neither be reverent nor kind.

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.