Pictures must not be too picturesque.

Do that which you fear to do, and the fear will die.

Let the bird sing without deciphering the song.

If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.

Don't trust children with edge tools. Don't trust man, great God, with more power than he has until he has learned to use that little better. What a hell we should make of the world if we could do what we would!

Our religion vulgarly stands on numbers of believers. Whenever the appeal is made--no matter how indirectly--to numbers, proclamation is then and there made, that religion is not. He that finds God a sweet, enveloping presence, who shall dare to come in?

A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.