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

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

Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will.

Knowledge, or more expressively truth,--for knowledge is truth received into our intelligence,--truth is an ideal whole.

Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness.

Poetry is in itself strength and joy, whether it be crowned by all mankind, or left alone in its own magic hermitage.

Language. By this we build pyramids, fight battles, ordain and administer laws, shape and teach religion, and knit man to man, cultivate each other, and ourselves.