Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will.

The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.

When there is no vision, people perish.

Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations. The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him.

A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents.

I see it only that thyself is here, and art and nature, hope and fate, friends, angels and the supreme being shall not be absent from the chamber where thou sittest.

Our expense is almost all for conformity. It is for cake that we run in debt; 'tis not the intellect, not the heart, not beauty, not worship, that costs so much.