It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see.

Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.

You will pardon some obscurities, for there are more secrets in my trade than in most men's, and yet not voluntarily kept, but inseparable from its very nature. I would gladly tell all that I know about it, and never paint "No Admittance" on my gate.

The value of any experience is measured, of course, not by the amount of money, but the amount of development we get out of it.

A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority.

Some hard and dry book in a dead language, which you have found it impossible to read at home, but for which you still have a lingering regard, is the best to carry with you on a journey.

"Hear! hear!" screamed the jay from a neighboring tree, where I had heard a tittering for some time, "winter has a concentrated and nutty kernel, if you know where to look for it."