Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed.

Immitation is suicide.

It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.

The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.

The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.

Art is the path of the creator to his work.

The the illuminated mind the whole world sparkles with light.