You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor.

It is a matter of the simplest demonstration, that no man can be really appreciated but by his equal or superior.

In our whole life melody the music is broken off here and there by rests, and we foolishly think we have come to the end of time. God sends a time of forced leisure, a time of sickness and disappointed plans, and makes a sudden pause in the hymns of our lives, and we lament that our voice must be silent and our part missing in the music which ever goes up to the ear of our Creator. Not without design does God write the music of our lives. Be it ours to learn the time and not be dismayed at the rests. If we look up, God will beat the time for us.

You can only possess beauty through understanding it.

Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself -my disgust at her barbarity -clumsiness -darkness -bitter mockery of herself -is the most desolating.

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.