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The truth of Nature is a part of the truth of God; to him who does not search it out, darkness; to him who does, infinity.
But whether thus submissively or not, at least be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.
There is no harm in anybody thinking that Christ is in bread. The harm is in the expectation of His presence in gunpowder.
It does not matter what the whip is; it is none the less a whip, because you have cut thongs for it out of your own souls.
The power of association is stronger than the power of beauty; therefore, the power of association is the power of beauty.
The question is not what man can scorn, or disparage, or find fault with, but what he can love, and value, and appreciate.
Pleasure comes through toil, and not by self indulgence and indolence. When one gets to love work, his life is a happy one.
You do not see with the lens of the eye. You seen through that, and by means of that, but you see with the soul of the eye.
Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.
No picture can be good which deceives by its imitation, for the very reason that nothing can be beautiful which is not true.
If you do not wish for His kingdom do not pray for it. But if you do you must do more than pray for it, you must work for it.
No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.
People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser...and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic.
Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook.
Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.
No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.
No girl who is well bred, 'kind, and modest, is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want of manners, or of heart.
Borrowers are nearly always ill-spenders, and it is with lent money that all evil is mainly done and all unjust war protracted.
In order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.
The time is probably near when a new system of architectural laws will be developed, adapted entirely to metallic construction.
The relative majesty of buildings depends more on the weight and vigour of their masses than any other tribute of their design.
... no human actions ever were intended by the Maker of men to be guided by balances of expediency, but by balances of justice.
There is nothing so small but that we may honor God by asking His guidance of it, or insult Him by taking it into our own hands.
It is among children only, and as children only, that you will find medicine for your healing and true wisdom for your teaching.
No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.
What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do
No one can become rich by the efforts of only their toil, but only by the discovery of some method of taxing the labor of others.
Contrast increases the splendor of beauty, but it disturbs its influence; it adds to its attractiveness, but diminishes its power.
No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.
The beginning and almost the end of all good law is that everyone shall work for their bread and receive good bread for their work.
Death is not a journey into an unknown land; it is a voyage home. We are going, not to a strange country, but to our fathers house.
If you want knowledge, you must toil for it; if food, you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil for it: toil is the law.
I would rather teach drawing that my pupils may learn to love nature, than teach the looking at nature that they may learn to draw.
That man is always happy who is in the presence of something which he cannot know to the full, which he is always going on to know.
The step between practical and theoretic science, is the step between the miner and the geologist, the apocathecary and the chemist.
The only absolutely and unapproachably heroic element in the soldier's work seems to be-that he is paid little for it-and regularly.
At every moment of our lives we should be trying to find out, not in what we differ with other people, but in what we agree with them.
Which of us?is to do the hard and dirty work for the restand for what pay? Who is to do the pleasant and clean work, and for what pay?
Everything that you can see in the world around you presents itself to your eyes only as an arrangement of patches of different colors.
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.
I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.
Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.
It is not the church we want, but the sacrifice; not the emotion of admiration, but the act of adoration; not the gift, but the giving.
When the whole world turns clown, and paints itself red with its own hearts blood instead of vermilion, it is something else than comic.
The virtue of the imagination is its reaching, by intuition and intensity, a more essential truth than is seen at the surface of things.
I've seen the Rhine with younger wave, O'er every obstacle to rave. I see the Rhine in his native wild Is still a mighty mountain child.
That admiration of the 'neat but not gaudy,' which is commonly reported to have influenced the devil when he painted his tail pea green.
The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as the greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure.
Many thoughts are so dependent upon the language in which they are clothed that they would lose half their beauty if otherwise expressed.
It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.