Dare to love God without mediator or veil.

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

The domestic man, who loves no music so well as his kitchen clock, and the airs which the logs sing to him as they burn on the hearth, has solaces which others never dream of.

Health, south wind, books, old trees, a boat, a friend.

Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.

The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man.