The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

Knowledge, or more expressively truth,--for knowledge is truth received into our intelligence,--truth is an ideal whole.

Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it.

The ideal client is the very wealthy man in very great trouble.

Poetry is in itself strength and joy, whether it be crowned by all mankind, or left alone in its own magic hermitage.

Repentance clothes in grass and flowers the grave in which the past is laid.

Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will.