The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

Society has sacrificed its virtues to the Goddess of Getting Along.

To cultivate sympathy you must be among living creatures, and thinking about them; and to cultivate admiration, you must be among beautiful things and looking at them.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

In the utmost solitudes of nature, the existence of hell seems to me as legibly declared by a thousand spiritual utterances as that of heaven.

Of all God's gifts to the sighted man, color is holiest, the most divine, the most solemn.

To do your own work well, whether it be for life or death.