Of all God's gifts to the sighted man, color is holiest, the most divine, the most solemn.

What is poetry? The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions.

The Spirit power begins in directing the Animal power to other than egoistic ends.

I will not kill or hurt any living creature needlessly, nor destroy any beautiful thing, but will strive to save and comfort all gentle life, and guard and perfect all natural beauty upon the earth.

Surely our clergy need not be surprised at the daily increasing distrust in the public mind of the efficacy of prayer.

Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality.

As unity demanded for its expression what at first might have seemed its opposite--variety; so repose demands for its expression the implied capability of its opposite--energy. It is the most unfailing test of beauty; nothing can be ignoble that possesses it, nothing right that has it not.