Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.

I once asked a distinguished artist what place he gave to labor in art. "Labor," he in effect said, "is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art." Turning then to another--"And you," I inquired, "what do you consider as the great force in art?" "Love," he replied. In their two answers I found but one truth.

The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

A good thought is indeed a great boon, for which God is to be first thanked; next he who is the first to utter it, and then, in a lesser, but still in a considerable degree, the friend who is the first to quote it to us. Whoever adopts and circulates a just thought, participates in the merit that originated it.

The trouble with men of sense is that they are so dreadfully in earnest all the while.

As many suffer from too much as too little.

Tis but a short journey across the isthmus of Now.