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

The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

We say that every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment. We measure our friends so. We know, they have intervals of folly, whereof we take no heed, but wait the reappearings of the genius, which are sure and beautiful.

We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents. It may be safely trusted as proportionate and of good issues, so it be faithfully imparted, but God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.

If a man is at heart just, then in so far is he God; the safety of God, the immortality of God, the majesty of God do enter into that man with justice.

Universities are of course hostile to geniuses.