God is liberal of color; so should man be.

The shadows of things are greater than themselves; and the more exaggerated the shadow, the more unlike the substance.

Genius is full of trash.

Failure is the test of greatness.

The man that has anything bountifully laughable about him, be sure there is more in that man than you perhaps think for.

An intense copper calm, like a universal yellow lotus, was more and more unfolding its noiseless measureless leaves upon the sea.

Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.