There is no harm in anybody thinking that Christ is in bread. The harm is in the expectation of His presence in gunpowder.

It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.

You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.

Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

The art of nations is to be accumulative, just as science and history are; the work of living men not superseding, but building itself upon the work of the past.

The constant duty of every man to his fellows is to ascertain his own powers and special gifts, and to strengthen them for the help of others.