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

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

All the best things and treasures of this world are not to be produced by each generation for itself; but we are all intended, not to carve our work in snow that will melt, but each and all of us to be continually rolling a great white gathering snow-ball, higher and higher, larger and larger, along the Alps of human power.

You were made for enjoyment, and the world was filled with things which you will enjoy, unless you are too proud to be pleased with them, or too grasping to care for what you can not turn to other account than mere delight.

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

It is among children only, and as children only, that you will find medicine for your healing and true wisdom for your teaching.

The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.