The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work.

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

Men say their pinnacles point to heaven. Why, so does every tree that buds, and every bird that rises as it sings. Men say their aisles are good for worship. Why, so is every mountain glen and rough sea-shore. But this they have of distinct and indisputable glory,--that their mighty walls were never raised, and never shall be, but by men who love and aid each other in their weakness.

A forest of all manner of trees is poor, if not disagreeable, in effect; a mass of one species of tree is sublime.

We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts.