The mind is the atmosphere of the soul.
What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm.
The God of metaphysics is but an idea. But the God of religion, the Maker of heaven and earth, the sovereign Judge of actions and thoughts, is a power.
Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.
A work is perfectly finished only when nothing can be added to it and nothing taken away.
He who cannot see the beautiful side is a bad painter, a bad friend, a bad lover; he cannot lift his mind and his heart so high as goodness.