Every individual man has a bias which he must obey, and...it is only as he feels and obeys this that he rightly develops and attains his legitimate power in the world. It is his magnetic needle, which points always in one direction to his proper path.... He is never happy nor strong until he finds it, keeps it.

Any work looks wonderful to me except the one which I can do.

With most men, scarce a link of memory holds yesterday and to-day together.

Society is a hospital of incurables.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west.

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.