Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.
Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.
Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.
Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.
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.