If you can draw the stone rightly, everything within reach of art is also within yours.

They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

The proof of a thing's being right is that it has power over the heart; that it excites us, wins us, or helps us.

Greatness is the aggregation of minuteness; nor can its sublimity be felt truthfully by any mind unaccustomed to the affectionate watching of what is least.

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

There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.

You were made for enjoyment, and the world was filled with things which you will enjoy, unless you are too proud to be pleased with them, or too grasping to care for what you can not turn to other account than mere delight.