To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

Not by constraint or severity shall you have access to true wisdom, but by abandonment, and childlike mirth-fulness. If you would know aught, be gay before it.

After all, the practical reason why, when the power is once in the hands of the people, a majority are permitted, and for a long period continue, to rule is not because they are most likely to be in the right, nor because this seems fairest to the minority, but because they are physically the strongest. But a government in which the majority rule in all cases cannot be based on justice, even as far as men understand it.

I am not afraid that I shall exaggerate the value and significance of life, but that I shall not be up to the occasion which it is.

I would remind my countrymen that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour.

Unless we do more than simply learn the trade of our time, we are but apprentices, and not yet masters of the art of life.