Action has magic, grace and power in it.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

The field of experience is the whole universe in all directions. Theory remains shut up within the limits of human faculties.

Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.

Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native; your best teacher is there. Where the thing you wish to know is so dominant that you must breathe its very atmosphere, there teaching is moat thorough, and learning is most easy. You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy boat among miners; and so with everything else.

True works of art are a manifestation of the higher laws of nature.

The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman; one must say nothing to it except what it likes to hear.