The art of drawing which is of more real importance to the human race than that of writing...should be taught to every child just as writing is.

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

To speak and act truth with constancy and precision is nearly as difficult, and perhaps as meretorious, as to speak it under intimidation or penalty

The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.

The only way to understand these difficult parts of the Bible, or even to approach them with safety, is first to read and obey the easy ones.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

God will put up with a great many things in the human heart, but there is one thing that He will not put up with in it--a second place. He who offers God a second place, offers Him no place.