No amount of pay ever made a good soldier, a good teacher, a good artist, or a good workman.
Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.
If we pretend to have reached either perfection or satisfaction, we have degraded ourselves and our work. God's work only may express that, but ours may never have that sentence written upon it, Behold it was very good.
Every duty we omit obscures some truth we should have known.
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become.
There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals.