Everywhere the fatal spirit of imitation, of reference to European standards, penetrates and threatens to blight whatever of original growth might adorn the soil.

Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - a house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as for the body. For human beings are not so constituted that they can live without expansion. If they do not get it in one way, they must in another, or perish.

Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.

A man who means to think and write a great deal must, after six and twenty, learn to read with his fingers.

Life is richly worth living, with its continual revelations of mighty woe, yet infinite hope; and I take it to my breast.

I find no intellect comparable to my own