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.

Wherever the human mind is healthy and vigorous in all its proportions, great in imagination and emotion no less than in intellect, and not overborne by an undue or hardened pre-eminence of the mere reasoning faculties, there the grotesque will exist in full energy.

To do your own work well, whether it be for life or death.

If you do not wish for His kingdom do not pray for it. But if you do you must do more than pray for it, you must work for it.

Hope- the recognition, by true foresight, of better things to be reached here after.

Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.

An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.