The great cry that rises from all our manufacturing cities, louder than the furnace blast, is all in very deed for this -- that we manufacture everything there except men.

Not without design does God write the music of our lives. Be it ours to learn the time, and not be discouraged at the rests. If we say sadly to ourselves, "There is no music in a rest," let us not forget " there is the making of music in it." The making of music is often a slow and painful process in this life. How patiently God works to teach us! How long He waits for us to learn the lesson!

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

I believe that there is no test of greatness in periods, nations or men more sure than the development, among them or in them, of a noble grotesque, and no test of comparative smallness or limitation, of one kind or another, more sure than the absence of grotesque invention, or incapability of understanding it.

In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects of faith to show their powers of painting.

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

Repose demands for its expression the implied capability of its opposite,--energy.