It is evident that the chief feeling induced by woody country is one of reverence for its antiquity. There is a quiet melancholy about the decay of the patriarchal trunks, which is enhanced by the gre...
The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and what it saw in a plain way. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion--all in one.
Modern traveling is not traveling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.
It does not much matter that an individual loses two or three hundred pounds in buying a bad picture, but it is to be regretted that a nation should lose two or three hundred thousand in raising a rid...
The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.
It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.
Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.
The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.
All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
Shadows are in reality when the sun is shining the most conspicuous thing in a landscape next to the highest lights.
To be content in utter darkness and ignorance is indeed unmanly, and therefore we think that to love light and find knowledge must always be right. Yet wherever pride has any share in the work, even k...
The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.
All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.
When men are rightfully occupied then their amusement grows out of their work as the color petals out of a fruitful garden.
God gives us always strength enough and sense enough for everything He wants us to do.
If only the Geologists would let me alone, I could do very well, but those dreadful Hammers! I hear the clink of them at the end of every cadence of the Bible verses
In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.
The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.
The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.