Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.

There is large difference between indolent impatience of labor and intellectual impatience of delay, large difference between leaving things unfinished because we have more to do or because we are satisfied with what we have done.

All great art is the expression of man's delight in God's work, not his own.

It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.

Though nature is constantly beautiful, she does not exhibit her highest powers of beauty constantly, for then they would satiate us and pall upon our senses. It is necessary to their appreciation that they should be rarely shown. Her finest touches are things which must be watched for; her most perfect passages of beauty are the most evanescent.

To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality.

I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.