A people are free in proportion as they form their own opinions.

Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.

I feel as if God had, by giving the Sabbath, given fifty-two springs in every year.

Wherever you find a sentence musically worded, of true rhythm and melody in the words, there is something deep and good in the meaning too.

Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.

The once red leaf, the last of its clan, that dances as often as dance it can.

Now Art, used collectively for painting, sculpture, architecture and music, is the mediatress between, and reconciler of, nature and man. It is, therefore, the power of humanizing nature, of infusing the thoughts and passions of man into everything which is the object of his contemplation.