If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.
Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding the secret to another soul.
In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight.
The greatest genius is the most indebted person.
Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.
It is the doctrine of the popular music-masters, that whoever can speak can sing. So, probably, every man is eloquent once in his life. Our temperaments differ in capacity of heat, or