The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough..

Our reliance on the physician is a kind of despair of ourselves..

There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day..

Some men at the approach of a dispute neigh like horses. Unless there be an argument, they think nothing is doing. Some talkers excel in the precisio….

Every man has a vocation. The talent is the call..

Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the State..

There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere welcome; alwayswe are invited to wo….

Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts..

A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine..

Society does not love its unmaskers..

Good poetry could not have been otherwise written than it is. The first time you hear it, it sounds rather as if copied out of some invisible tablet ….

The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual..

Our life seems not present, so much as prospective; not for the affairs on which it is wasted, but as a hint of this vast- flowingvigor..

We resent all criticism which denies us anything that lies in our line of advance..

And the glory of character is in affronting the horrors of depravity to draw thence new nobilities of power: as Art lives and thrills in new use and ….

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass..

Every artist was first an amateur..

I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all..

Moderation in all things, especially moderation..

A man complained that on his way home to dinner he had every day to pass through that long field of his neighbor's. I advised him to buy it, and it w….

All my hurts my garden spade can heal..