Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.

Surely our clergy need not be surprised at the daily increasing distrust in the public mind of the efficacy of prayer.

Greatness is not a teachable nor gainable thing, but the expression of the mind of a God-made great man.

One of the worst diseases to which the human creature is liable is its disease of thinking.

He who has learned what is commonly considered the whole art of painting, that is, the art of representing any natural object faithfully, has as yet only learned the language by which his thoughts are to be expressed.

Death is not a journey into an unknown land; it is a voyage home. We are going, not to a strange country, but to our fathers house.

The wisest men are wise to the full in death.