Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.

Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.

It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.

The highest ideal man can form of his own powers, is that which he is destined to attain. Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain. This is the law and the prophets. Knock and it shall be opened, seek and ye shall find. It is demonstrated; it is a maxim.

There is some danger lest there be no real religion in the heart which craves too much daily sympathy.

Artists are always young.