So far as I have myself observed, the distinctive character of a child is to live always in the tangible present.

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

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

God shows us in Himself, strange as it may seem, not only authoritative perfection, but even the perfection of obedience--an obedience to His own laws; and in the cumbrous movement of those unwieldiest of his creatures we are reminded, even in His divine essence, of that attribute of uprightness in the human creature "that sweareth to his own hurt and changeth not.

To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality.

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.

Science has to do with facts, art with phenomena. To science, phenomena are of use only as they lead to facts; and to art, facts are of use only as they lead to phenomena.