I know the Bible is inspired because it finds me at greater depths of my being than any other book.

If people could learn history, what lessons it might teach us!

A Court has no right to strain the law because it causes hardship.

The whole faculties of man must be exerted in order to call forth noble energies; and he who is not earnestly sincere lives in but half his being, self-mutilated, self-paralyzed.

Painting is the intermediate somewhat between a thought and a thing.

The heart should have fed upon the truth, as insects on a leaf, till it be tinged with the color, and show its food in every ... minutest fiber.

People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.