Be busy in trading, receiving, and giving, for life is too good to be wasted in living.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it.