Modern education too often covers the fingers with rings, and at the same time cuts the sinews at the wrist.

Faith in a better than that which appears is no less required by art than by religion.

Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

Speech is as a pump, by which we raise and pour out the water from the great lake of Thought,--whither it flows back again.

An unproductive truth is none. But there are products which cannot be weighed even in patent scales, nor brought to market.

Color, in the outward world, answers to feeling in man; shape, to thought; motion, to will. The dawn of day is the nearest outward likeness of an act of creation; and it is, therefore, also the closest type in nature for that in us which most approaches to creation--the realization of an idea by an act of the will.