There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.

Every man is not so much a workman in the world as he is a suggestion of that he should be. Men walk as prophecies of the next age.

She shows us only surfaces, but she is million-fathoms deep.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.

The highest praise we can attribute to any writer, painter, sculptor, builder, is, that he actually possessed the thought or feeling with which he has inspired us.

Black men built the railroads, not blue eyes.

Wisdom is not found with those who dwell at their ease; rather nature, when she adds brain, adds difficulty.