Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality.

Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.

Come, ye cold winds, at January's call, On whistling wings, and with white flakes bestrew The earth.

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great.

When I have been unhappy, I have heard an opera... and it seemed the shrieking of winds; when I am happy, a sparrow's chirp is delicious to me. But it is not the chirp that makes me happy, but I that make it sweet.

Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know in life.