It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

All of us contain Music & Truth, but most of us can't get it out.

A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificiant by and by. The Alps and the glaciers together are able to take every bit of conceit out of a man and reduce his self-importance to zero if he will only remain within the influence of their sublime presence long enough to give it a fair and reasonable chance to do its work.

What a lumbering poor vehicle prose is for the conveying of a great thought! ... Prose wanders around with a lantern & laboriously schedules & verifies the details & particulars of a valley & its frame of crags & peaks, then Poetry comes, & lays bare the whole landscape with a single splendid flash.

A few fly bites cannot stop a spirited horse.

To stand still is to fall behind.

Men are like bank accounts. The more money, the more interest they generate.