He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.

It is eminently a weariable faculty, eminently delicate, and incapable of bearing fatigue; so that if we give it too many objects at a time to employ itself upon, or very grand ones for a long time together, it fails under the effort, becomes jaded, exactly as the limbs do by bodily fatigue, and incapable of answering any farther appeal till it has had rest.

Whenever you see want or misery or degradation in this world about you, then be sure either industry has been wanting, or industry has been in error.

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

The more readily we admit the possibility of our own cherished convictions being mixed with error, the more vital and helpful whatever is right in them will become; and no error is so conclusively fatal as the idea that God will not allow us to err, though He has allowed all other men to do so.

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.

God intends no man to live in this world without working, but it seems to me no less evident that He intends every man to be happy in his work.