We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.

Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man.

I like people who can do things

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

Art is evidence of our most creative moment.

It is a mischievous notion that we are come late into nature; that the world was finished a long time ago. As the world was plastic and fluid in the hands of God, so it is ever to so much of his attributes as we bring to it. To ignorance and sin, it is flint. They adapt to themselves to it as they may; but in proportion as a man has anything in him divine, the firmament flows before him and takes his signet and form.

Go cherish your soul; express companions; set your habits to a life of solitude; then will the faculties rise fair and full within.