The life without men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

There is not one kind of food for all men. You must and you will feed those faculties which you exercise. The laborer whose body is weary does not require the same food with the scholar whose brain is weary.

It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

There are many skillful apprentices, but few master workmen.

The sun is but a morning star.

A man may grow rich in Turkey even, if he will be in all respects a good subject of the Turkish government.

I learned what it is to live in the open air, and I learned that our lives are domestic in more sense than we think.