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

To be young is surely the best, if the most precarious, gift of life.

It is the vain endeavor to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and lives left in the rough.

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

There is a law of neutralization of forces, which hinders bodies from sinking beyond a certain depth in the sea; but in the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.

At the devil's booth are all things sold. Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold.

Imagination, where it is truly creative, is a faculty, and not a quality; it looks before and after, it gives the form that makes all the parts work together harmoniously toward a given end, its seat is in the higher reason, and it is efficient only as a servant of the will. Imagination, as it is too often misunderstood, is mere fantasy, the image-making power, common to all who have the gift of dreams.