My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.

A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul.

We must learn the language of facts. The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses.

Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.

Everything good is on the highway.

All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.

It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know what is good, and require it. you will aspire and burn until you achieve it. But from time to time, in history, men are born a whole age too soon.