How painful to give a gift to any person of sensibility, or of equality! It is next worst to receiving one

Art is evidence of our most creative moment.

Sincerity is the highest complement you can pay

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.

In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.

The city is always recruited from the country. The men in cities who are the centres of energy, the driving-wheels of trade, politics or practical arts, and the women of beauty and genius, are the children or grandchildren of farmers, and are spending the energies which their fathers' hardy, silent life accumulated in frosty furrows in poverty, necessity and darkness.

From Washington, proverbially "the city of distances," through all its cities, states, and territories, it is a country of beginnings, of projects, of designs, and expectations.