Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.

The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.

No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself, who would not exchange the finest show for the poorest reality, who does not so love his work that he is not only glad to give himself for it, but finds rather a gain than a sacrifice in the surrender.

No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

That love for one, from which there doth not spring Wide love for all, is but a worthless thing.

Better one bite at forty, of truths bitter rind, than the hot wine that gushed from the vintage of twenty.