Hope- the recognition, by true foresight, of better things to be reached here after.

It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all that he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his readers is sure to skip them.

Milton saw not, and Beethoven heard not, but the sense of beauty was upon them, and they fain must speak.

The plea of ignorance will never take away our responsibilities.

An unimaginative person can neither be reverent nor kind.

There is no climate, no place, and scarcely an hour, in which nature does not exhibit color which no mortal effort can imitate or approach. For all our artificial pigments are, even when seen under the same circumstances, dead and lightless beside her living color; nature exhibits her hues under an intensity of sunlight which trebles their brilliancy.

Obey something, and you will have a chance to learn what is best to obey. But if you begin by obeying nothing, you will end by obeying the devil and all his invited friends.