Accepting good advice means nothing other than to strengthen one's own ability.

When two men quarrel, who owns the cooler head is the more to blame.

It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's self too cheap.

Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.

We are pantheists as natural scientists, polytheists as poets, and monotheists as moral beings.

We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their sympathies

Everything transitory is but an image.