Body cannot teach wisdom; God only.

Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.

When there is no vision, people perish.

A great licentiousness treads on the heels of a reformation.

It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it.

The common experience is, that the man fits himself as well as he can to the customary details of that work or trade he falls into, and tends it as a dog turns a spit. Then he is part of the machine he moves; the man is lost.

Idealism sees the world in God. It beholds the whole circle of persons and things, of actions and events, of country and religion,not as painfully accumulated, atom after atom, act after act, in an aged creeping Past, but as one vast picture, which God paints on the instant eternity, for the contemplation of the soul.