"Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any living creature is "What do you like?" Tell me what you like, I'll tell you what you are."

He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

Why is one man richer than another? Because he is more industrious, more persevering and more sagacious.

Unless we perform divine service with every willing act of our life, we never perform it at all.

The power of association is stronger than the power of beauty; therefore, the power of association is the power of beauty.

There is large difference between indolent impatience of labor and intellectual impatience of delay, large difference between leaving things unfinished because we have more to do or because we are satisfied with what we have done.