Genius is saying what is in your heart, because it's in everyone's heart.

In the Greek cities, it was reckoned profane, that any person should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged to all who could behold it.

There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

We over-estimate the conscience of our friend. His goodness seems better than our goodness, his nature finer, his temptations less. Everything that is his,--his name, his form, his dress, books, and instruments,--fancy enhances. Our own thought sounds new and larger from his mouth.

Continual failure is a road to success - if you have the strength to go on.

The sun shines today also.

Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment.