“The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.”

“Occult Theft,--Theft which hides itself even from itself, and is legal, respectable, and cowardly,--corrupts the body and soul of man, to the last fibre of them. And the guilty Thieves of Europe, the real sources of all deadly war in it, are the Capitalists”

“To be taught to read—what is the use of that, if you know not whether what you read is false or true? To be taught to write or to speak—but what is the use of speaking, if you have nothing to say? To be taught to think—nay, what is the use of being able to think, if you have nothing to think of? But to be taught to see is to gain word and thought at once, and both true.”

“He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.”

“The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.”

“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.”

“Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.”

“Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.”

“The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.”

“Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.”

“Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.”