I hate to be defended in a newspaper. As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain assurance of success. But as soon as honeyed w….

The secret of the illusoriness is in the necessity of a succession of moods or objects. Gladly we would anchor, but the anchorageis quicksand..

It is true that the discerning intellect of the world is always much in advance of the creative, so that there are competent judges of the best book,….

Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all. Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier..

Dreams and beasts are two keys by which we find out the keys of our own nature..

An individual has a healthy personality to the exact degree to which they have the propensity to look for the good in every situation..

Our relations to each other are oblique and casual..

Nature is a rag merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations..

Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay..

Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee..

If the race is good, so is the place..

Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind and in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and good. Heroism is an obedience ….

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..