The plea of ignorance will never take away our responsibilities.

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one.

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

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

Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the laws of death.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

See that your children be taught, not only the labors of the earth, but the loveliness of it.