See that your children be taught, not only the labors of the earth, but the loveliness of it.

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.

Kind hearts are the garden, kind thoughts are the roots, kind words are the blossoms, kind deeds are the fruit.

Men say their pinnacles point to heaven. Why, so does every tree that buds, and every bird that rises as it sings. Men say their aisles are good for worship. Why, so is every mountain glen and rough sea-shore. But this they have of distinct and indisputable glory,--that their mighty walls were never raised, and never shall be, but by men who love and aid each other in their weakness.

Nearly all our powerful men in this age of the world are unbelievers; the best of them in doubt and misery; the worst in reckless defiance; the plurality, in plodding hesitation, doing, as well as they can, what practical work lies ready to their hands.

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

The art of drawing which is of more real importance to the human race than that of writing...should be taught to every child just as writing is.