It is no small benefit on finding oneself in bed in the dark to go over again in the imagination the main lines of the forms previously studied, or other noteworthy things conceived by ingenious speculation.

If you do not rest on the good foundation of nature, you will labour with little honor and less profit.

To be a winner you must want to win but must know of the chance of losing and must not fear of it.

You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

The lie is so vile, that even if it were in speaking well of godly things, it would take off something from God's grace; and Truth is so excellent, that if it praises but small things they become noble.

I have solved what color is, however ; I still have no idea about what line is.