Artists are nearest God. Into their souls he breathes his life, and from their hands it comes in fair, articulate forms to bless the world..

Cost is the father and compensation the mother of progress..

Every man's powers have relation to some kind of work; and whenever he finds that kind of work which he can do best--that to which his powers are bes….

All things unrevealed belong to the kingdom of mystery..

Almost everywhere men have become the particular things which their particular work has made them..

If we will measure other people's corn in our own bushel, let us first take it to the Divine standard, and have it sealed..

If there be one attribute of the Deity which astonishes me more than another, it is the attribute of patience. The Great Soul that sits on the throne….

The theological systems of men and schools of men are determined always by the character of their ideal of Christ, the central fact of the Christian ….

A noble deed is a step towards heaven..

In the homes of America are born the children of America; and from them go out into American life, American men and women. They go out with the stamp….

It is only rogues who feel the restraints of law..

No man ever feels the restraint of law so long as he remains within the sphere of his liberty -- a sphere, by the way, always large enough for the fu….

The gentleman is solid mahogany; the fashionable man is only veneer..

I stand by my kind; and I thank God for the temptations that have brought me into sympathy with them, as I do for the love that urges me to efforts f….

There is no well-doing, no Godlike doing, that is not patient doing..

There is really nothing left to a genuine idle man, who possesses any considerable degree of vital power, but sin..

Geology gives us a key to the patience of God..

I account the office of benefactor, or almoner, to which God appoints all those whom he has favored with wealth, one of the most honorable and deligh….

God pity the man of science who believes in nothing but what he can prove by scientific methods; for if ever a human being needed divine pity, he doe….

The choicest thing this world has for a man is affection..

It is by work that man carves his way to that measure of power which will fit him for his destiny..