The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

And the glory of character is in affronting the horrors of depravity to draw thence new nobilities of power: as Art lives and thrills in new use and combining of contrasts, and mining into the dark evermore for blacker pits of night.

What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects. What is life but what a man is thinking of all day? This is his fate and his employer. Knowing is the measure of the man. By how much we know, so we are.

Who shall forbid a wise skepticism, seeing that there is no practical question on which anything more than an approximate solution can be had?

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

The whole value of the dime is in knowing what to do with it.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.