I account the office of benefactor, or almoner, to which God appoints all those whom he has favored with wealth, one of the most honorable and delightful in the world. He never institutes a channel for the passage of His bounties that those bounties do not enrich and beautify.
A mind grows by what it feeds on.
A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic is to life.
The temple of art is built in words.
Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.
if have got my spindle and my distaff ready--my pen and mind--never doubting for an instant that God will send me flax.