The secret of genius is to suffer no fiction to exist for us; to realize all that we know; in the high refinement of modern life,in arts, in sciences, in books, in men, to exact good faith, reality, and a purpose; and first, last, midst, and without end, to honor every truth by use.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

The path of things is silent. Will they suffer a speaker to go with them?

Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.

We don't grow old. When we cease to grow, we become old.

Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Hidden away in the inner nature of the real man is the law of his life, and someday he will discover it and consciously make use of it. He will heal himself, make himself happy and prosperous, and life in an entirely different world. For he will have discovered that life is from within and not from without.