What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do

If there be any one principle more widely than another confessed by every utterance, or more sternly than another imprinted on every atom of the visible creation, that principle is not liberty, but law.

It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning.

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Humanity and Immortality consist neither in reason, nor in love; not in the body, nor in the animation of the heart of it, nor in the thoughts and stirrings of the brain of it;--but in the dedication of them all to Him who will raise them up at the last day.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts.