The best bribe which London offers to-day to the imagination, is, that, in such a vast variety of people and conditions, one can believe there is room for persons of romantic character to exist, and that the poet, the mystic, and the hero may hope to confront their counterparts.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

Deep insight will always, like Nature, ultimate its thought in a thing.

The height of the pinnacle is determined by the breadth of the base.

All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man has taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.

The writer is an explorer. Every step is an advance into a new land.

We must be our own before we can be another's.