[For men] to feel their souls withering within them, unthanked, to find their whole being sunk into an unrecognized abyss, to be counted off into a heap of mechanism numbered with its wheels, and weighed with its hammer strokes - this, nature bade not, - this, God blesses not, - this, humanity for no long time is able to endure.

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

But I beg you to observe that there is a wide difference between being captains or governors of work, and taking the profits of it. It does not follow, because you are general of an army, that you are to take all the treasure, or land, it wins; (if it fight for treasure or land); neither, because you are king of a nation, that you are to consume all the profits of the nation's work.

If you do not wish for His kingdom do not pray for it. But if you do you must do more than pray for it, you must work for it.

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.

If the thing is impossible, you need not trouble yourselves about it; if possible, try for it.

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.