We are, after all, only trustees of the wealth we possess. Without the community and its resources... there would be little wealth for anyone.

All great song, from the first day when human lips contrived syllables, has been sincere song.

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

In health of mind and body, men should see with their own eyes, hear and speak without trumpets, walk on their feet, not on wheels, and work and war with their arms, not with engine-beams, nor rifles warranted to kill twenty men at a shot before you can see them.

An unimaginative person can neither be reverent nor kind.

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.

There is no wealth but life. Life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest numbers of noble and happy human beings; that man is richest, who, having perfected the functions of his own life to the utmost, has also the widest helpful influence, both personal, and by means of his possessions, over the lives of others.