Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful..

But the man and woman of seventy assume to know all, they have outlived their hope, they renounce aspiration, accept the actual for the necessary and….

A man passes for that he is worth. What he is engraves itself on his face, on his form, on his fortunes, in letters of light. Concealment avails hi….

A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness..

Courage is temperamental, scientific, ideal..

Among the map makers of each generation are the risk takers, those who see the opportunities, seize the moment and expand man's vision of the future.

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thin….

It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it..

And of poetry, the success is not attained when it lulls and satisfies, but when it astonishes and fires us with new endeavours after the unattainabl….

This whole business of Trade gives me to pause and think, as it constitutes false relations between men; inasmuch as I am prone tocount myself reliev….

Good as is discourse, silence is better, and shames it. The length of the discourse indicates the distance of thought betwixt the speaker and the hea….

Examples are cited by soldiers, of men who have seen the cannon pointed, and the fire given to it, and who have stepped aside from he path of the bal….

Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect. A man does not see, that, as he eats, so he thinks: as he deals, so he is, and so he appears; he does not….

But I cannot recite, even thus rudely, laws of the intellect, without remembering that lofty and sequestered class of men who have been its prophets ….

Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds: Men live on the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which yet they never enter, and with ….

Life has a way of demanding that you live it..

Come out of the azure. Love the day. Do not leave the sky out of your landscape..

Blessed are those who have no talent!.

My doom and my strength is to be solitary..

A beautiful woman is a picture which drives all beholders nobly mad..

There is more in every person's soul than we think..