He is not the greatest painter who crowds the greatest number of ideas upon a single canvas, giving all the figures equal prominence.

He is the genuine artist who makes the greatest variety express the greatest unity, who develops the leading idea in the central figure, and makes all the subordinate figures, lights, and shades point to that center and find expression there.

So in every well-balanced life, no matter how versatile in endowments or how broad in culture, there is one grand central purpose, in which all the subordinate powers of the soul are brought to a focus, and where they will find fit expression.

In nature we see no waste of energy, nothing left to chance.

Since the shuttle of creation shot for the first time through chaos, design has marked the course of every golden thread.