If you do not wish for His kingdom do not pray for it. But if you do you must do more than pray for it, you must work for it.

All great song, from the first day when human lips contrived syllables, has been sincere song.

The power of painter or poet to describe what he calls an ideal thing depends upon its being to him not an ideal but a real thing. No man ever did or ever will work well but either from actual sight or sight of faith.

Do not think it wasted time to submit yourselves to any influence which may bring upon you any noble feeling.

In mortals there is a care for trifles which proceeds from love and conscience, and is most holy; and a care for trifles which comes of idleness and frivolity, and is most base. And so, also, there is a gravity proceeding from thought, which is most noble; and a gravity proceeding from dulness and mere incapability of enjoyment, which is most base.

Order and system are nobler things than power.

Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.