Science is the systematic classification of experience.

The artist is called a creator.

All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.

Character is built out of circumstances. From exactly the same materials, one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels.

It is not enough that a man has clearness of vision, and reliance on sincerity, he must also have the art of expression, or he will remain obscure.

Remember that every drop of rain that falls bears into the bosom of the earth a quality of beautiful fertility.

No man ever made a great discovery without the exercise of the imagination.