Many can argue - not many converse.

Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.

Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it.

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.

One's outlook is a part of his virtue.

One must espouse some pursuit, taking it kindly at heart and with enthusiasm.

A friendship formed in childhood, in youth,--by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood,--becomes the genius that rules the rest of life.