He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.

Every great man is always being helped by everybody, for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

It is a matter of the simplest demonstration, that no man can be really appreciated but by his equal or superior.

There is no action so slight or so mean but it may be done to a great purpose, and ennobled thereby.

That which seems to be wealth may in verity be only the gilded index of far reaching ruin

All of one's life is music, if one touches the notes rightly, and in time.

Now the basest thought possible concerning man is, that he has no spiritual nature; and the foolishest misunderstanding of him possible is, that he has, or should have, no animal nature. For his nature is nobly animal, nobly spiritual,--coherently and irrevocably so; neither part of it may, but at its peril, expel, despise, or defy the other.