Inspiration must find answering inspiration.

A work of real merit finds favor at last.

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Where women are, the better things are implied if not spoken.

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Nature is the armory of genius. Cities serve it poorly, books and colleges at second hand; the eye craves the spectacle of the horizon; of mountain, ocean, river and plain, the clouds and stars; actual contact with the elements, sympathy with the seasons as they rise and roll.