Galileo called doubt the father of invention; it is certainly the pioneer.

We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon 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.

Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.

It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.

To cultivate a garden is. . . to go hand in hand with Nature in some of her most beautiful processes, to learn something of her choicest secrets, and to have a more intelligent interest awakened in the beautiful order of her works elsewhere.

We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime