“The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.”

A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.

Repentance is another name for aspiration.

In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another’s good, and bearing one another’s burdens.

The meanest thing in the world is the devil.

A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.

True obedience is true freedom.

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.

Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page

Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.

A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.

The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.

Art should never be an answer but a question.

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

I remember growing up, saying you’re an artist it sounds pretentious but now it’s one of the only dignified things that you can call yourself.

I felt like ‘Owl Pharoah,’ not everyone understood who I was as an artist.

To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.

I feel like more artists like me should be on the radio. Everything is, like, so controlled by, like, super popular music. You know what I’m saying? Like, c’mon.

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

I consider myself a crayon. I may not be your favorite color but one day you’ll need me to complete your picture.