The only absolutely and unapproachably heroic element in the soldier's work seems to be-that he is paid little for it-and regularly.

What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do

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

Modern science gives lectures on botany, to show there is no such thing as a flower; on humanity, to show there is no such thing as a man; and on theology, to show there is no such thing as a God. No such thing as a man, but only a mechanism, No such thing as a God, but only a series of forces.

Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself -my disgust at her barbarity -clumsiness -darkness -bitter mockery of herself -is the most desolating.