Is all literature eavesdropping, and all art Chinese imitation? our life a custom, and our body borrowed, like a beggar’s dinner, from a hundred charities?

Profound sincerity is the only basis of talent as of character.

The god or hero of the sculptor is always represented in a transition from that which is representable to the senses, to that which is not.

If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false statement I could never stay there five minutes. But why come out? The streetis as false as the church, and when I get to my house, or to my manners, or to my speech, I have not got away from the lie.

Though we love goodness and not stealing, yet also we love freedom and not preaching.

The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us.

To eat bread is one thing; to love the precepts of Christ and resolve to obey them is quite another.