What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant well-being, and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.

All really great pictures exhibit the general habits of nature, manifested in some peculiar, rare, and beautiful way.

One can't be angry when one looks at a penguin.

God is a kind Father. He sets us all in the places where he wishes us to be employed. He chooses work for every creature which will be delightful to them if they do it simply and humbly. He gives us always strength enough and sense enough for what he wants us to do.

There is no law of history any more than of a kaleidoscope.

What is poetry? The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions.

The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.