A word once vulgarized can never be rehabilitated.

There are two kinds of genius. The first and highest may be said to speak out of the eternal to the present, and must compel its age to understand it; the second understands its age, and tells it what it wishes to be told.

In the scale of the destinies, brawn will never weigh so mach as brain.

In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.

Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.

It may be glorious to write Thoughts that shall glad the two or three High souls, like those far stars that come in sight Once in a century.

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.