All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another, and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it.

When men do not love their hearth, nor reverence their thresholds, it is a sign that they have dishonoured both ... Our God is a house-hold God, as well as a heavenly one; He has an altar in every man's dwelling.

... no human actions ever were intended by the Maker of men to be guided by balances of expediency, but by balances of justice.

Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth.

The Divine mind is as visible in its full energy of operation on every lowly bank and mouldering stone as in the lifting of the pillars of heaven, and settling the foundation of the earth.

Every noble life leaves the fibre of it interwoven forever in the work of the world.

People cannot live by lending money to one another.