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

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

The question is not what man can scorn, or disparage, or find fault with, but what he can love, and value, and appreciate.

You will never love art well until you love what she mirrors better.

There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals.

No changing of place at a hundred miles an hour will make us one whit stronger, or happier, or wiser. There was always more in the world than man could see, walked they ever so slowly; they will see it no better for going fast. The really precious things are thought and sight, not pace. It does a bullet no good to go fast; and a man, if he be truly a man, no harm to go slow; for his glory is not at all in going, but in being.

The best work never was and never will be done for money.