When you give, give with joy and smiling.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The ordinary true, or purely real, cannot be the object of the arts. Illusion on a ground of truth,--that is the secret of the fine arts.

Fully to understand a grand and beautiful thought requires, perhaps, as much time as to conceive it.

All good verses are like impromptus made at leisure.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it... GET RICH QUICK! Count your blessings... Stop telling GOD how big your storm is. Instead, tell the storm how big your GOD is!!!!!! Contentment begins where comparison ends. The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Reason is a bee, and exists only on what it makes; his usefulness takes the place of beauty.