Milton saw not, and Beethoven heard not, but the sense of beauty was upon them, and they fain must speak.

The Bible is the one Book to which any thoughtful man may go with any honest question of life or destiny and find the answer of God by honest searching.

All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another, and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it.

When the whole world turns clown, and paints itself red with its own hearts blood instead of vermilion, it is something else than comic.

As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all but that splendor of dress is a crime.

Variety is a positive requisite even in the character of our food.

[For men] to feel their souls withering within them, unthanked, to find their whole being sunk into an unrecognized abyss, to be counted off into a heap of mechanism numbered with its wheels, and weighed with its hammer strokes - this, nature bade not, - this, God blesses not, - this, humanity for no long time is able to endure.