There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.

Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run.

I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

Lord of the far horizons, Give us the eyes to see Over the verge of the sundown The beauty that is to be.

It is not being out at heels that makes a man discontented, it is being out at heart. To be contented is to be good friends with yourself.

Have little care that Life is brief, And less that Art is long. Success is in the silences Though Fame is in the song.

There is only one way in the world to be distinguished. Follow your instinct! Be yourself, and you'll be somebody. Be one more blind follower of the blind, and you will have the oblivion you desire.