It is the curse of prosperity that it takes work away from us, and shuts that door to hope and health of spirit.

Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.

A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know that he sees it.

The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.

It's a curious thing, this thing we call civilization...we think it is an affair of epochs, and nations. It's really an affair of individuals. One brother will be civilized and the other a barbarian...All civilization comes through literature now, especially in our country. A Greek got his civilization by talking and looking, and in some measure a Parisian may still do it. But we, who live remote from history and monuments, we must read or we must barbarise.

By beauty of course I mean truth, for the one involves the other; it is only the false in art which is ugly, and it is only the ugly that is universal.

The disposition to give a cup of cold water to a disciple is a far nobler property than the finest intellect. Satan has a fine intellect, but not the image of God.