Any color is more distinctly seen when opposed to its contrary: thus, black on white, blear near yellow, green near red, and so on.

It should not be hard for you to stop sometimes and look into the stains of walls, or ashes of a fire, or clouds, or mud or like places, in which...you may find really marvellous ideas.

I am not poor. Poor are those who desire many things.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.

Wood feeds the fire which burns it.

There shall be wings! If the accomplishment be not for me, 'tis for some other. The spirit cannot die; and man, who shall know all and shall have wings.