The man who says to one, go, and he goeth, and to another, come, and he cometh, has, in most cases, more sense of restraint and difficulty than the man who obeys him.

There is in every animal's eye a dim image and gleam of humanity, a flash of strange light through which their life looks out and up to our great mystery of command over them, and claims the fellowship of the creature if not of the soul.

Sky is the part of creation in which Nature has done more for the sake of pleasing man, more for the sole and evident purpose of talking to him and teaching him, than in any other of her works, and it is just the part in which we least attend to her.

If the thing is impossible, you need not trouble yourselves about it; if possible, try for it.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

All traveling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity.

All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another, and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it.