Genius is intensity of life; an overflowing vitality which floods and fertilizes a continent or a hemisphere of being; which makes a nature many-sided and whole, while most men remain partial and fragmentary.
Hamilton Wright MabieMan is incomprehensible without Nature and Nature is incomprehensible apart from man. For the delicate loveliness of the flower is as much in the human eye as in its own fragile petals and in the splendor of the heavens as much in the imagination that kindles at the touch of their glory as in the shining of countless worlds.
Hamilton Wright MabieThe question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had the means, time, influence and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has.
Hamilton Wright MabieIt is better to go down on the great seas which human hearts were made to sail than to rot at the wharves in ignoble anchorage.
Hamilton Wright Mabie