The real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers.

To one man a stream is so much water-power, to another a rendezvous for lovers.

A man may be buoyed up by the efflation of his wild desires to brave any imaginable peril; but he cannot calmly see one he loves braving the same peril; simply because he cannot feel within turn that which prompts another. He sees the danger, and feels not the power that is to overcome it.

The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected.

A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet.

Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.

Mathematicians do not write for the circulating library.