As unity demanded for its expression what at first might have seemed its opposite--variety; so repose demands for its expression the implied capability of its opposite--energy. It is the most unfailing test of beauty; nothing can be ignoble that possesses it, nothing right that has it not.

Unless we perform divine service with every willing act of our life, we never perform it at all.

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

There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals.

Mighty of heart, mighty of mind, magnanimous-to be this is indeed to be great in life.

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.