An artist spends himself like the crayon in his hand, till he is all gone.

In daily life what distinguishes the master is the using those materials he has, instead of looking about for what are more renowned, or what others have used well.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Learn from it... tomorrow is a new day.

To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart.

Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts.