Inspiration is solitary, never consecutive.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks; my country is Truth.

An artist should have more than two eyes.

Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.

Esteem incites friendship, but not love; the former is the twin brother of Reverence; the latter is the child of Equality.

...to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state

True love is the ripe fruit of a lifetime.