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.

Nothing can be true which is either complete or vacant; every touch is false which does not suggest more than it represents, and every space is false which represents nothing.

The secret of language is the secret of sympathy, and its full charm is possible only to the gentle

What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant well-being, and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.

God alone can finish.

See that your children be taught, not only the labors of the earth, but the loveliness of it.

It is among children only, and as children only, that you will find medicine for your healing and true wisdom for your teaching.