“Read nothing that you do not care to remember, and remember nothing you do not mean to use.”
“Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.”
“The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.”
“Let your rule in reference to your social desires be this. Pray for the bad, pity the weak, enjoy the good, and reverence both the great and the small, as each playing their part in the divine symphony of the universe.”