He who would reproach an author for obscurity should look into his own mind to see whether it is quite clear there. In the dusk the plainest writing is illegible.

Alas! how much there is in education, and in our social institutions, to prepare us and our children for insanity.

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.

Character - in things great and small - is indicated when a man (or person) pursues with sustained follow-through what he feels himself capable of doing.

Rest not Life is sweeping by go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.