There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.

In this republican country, amid the fluctuating waves of our social life, somebody is always at the drowning-point.

No summer ever came back, and no two summers ever were alike. Times change, and people change; and if our hearts do not change as readily, so much the worse for us.

Keep the imagination sane--that is one of the truest conditions of communion with heaven.

The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure - that is the choicest of all.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

As a general rule, Providence seldom vouchsafes to mortals any more than just that degree of encouragement which suffices to keep them at a reasonably full exertion of their powers.