You may assuredly find perfect peace, if you are resolved to do that which your Lord has plainly required--and content that He should indeed require no more of you--than to do justice, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with Him.

Great art is precisely that which never was, nor will be taught, it is preeminently and finally the expression of the spirits of great men.

Living without an aim, is like sailing without a compass.

When I have been unhappy, I have heard an opera... and it seemed the shrieking of winds; when I am happy, a sparrow's chirp is delicious to me. But it is not the chirp that makes me happy, but I that make it sweet.

There is no harm in anybody thinking that Christ is in bread. The harm is in the expectation of His presence in gunpowder.

It is a matter of the simplest demonstration, that no man can be really appreciated but by his equal or superior.

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