A mind grows by what it feeds on.

There is really nothing left to a genuine idle man, who possesses any considerable degree of vital power, but sin.

Who never walks save where he sees men's tracks makes no discoveries.

Fiction is most powerful when it contains most truth; and there is little truth we get so true as that which we find in fiction.

We work and that is godlike.

Artists are nearest God. Into their souls he breathes his life, and from their hands it comes in fair, articulate forms to bless the world.

All who become men of power reach their estate by the same self-mastery, the same self-adjustment to circumstances, the same voluntary exercise and discipline of their faculties, and the same working of their life up to and into their high ideals of life.