If a man knows the law, find out, though he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a man can pipe or sing, so as to wrap the imprisoned soul in an elysium; or can paint a landscape, and convey into souls and ochres all the enchantments of Spring or Autumn; or can liberate and intoxicate all people who hear him with delicious songs and verses; it is certain that the secret cannot be kept; the first witness tells it to a second, and men go by fives and tens and fifties to his doors.

Who makes and keeps the Jew or the Negro base, who but you, who exclude them from the rights which others enjoy?

Let a man then know his worth and keep things under his feet.

The spirit of the world, the great calm presence of the creator, comes not forth to the sorceries of opium or of wine.

Whilst all the world is in pursuit of power, culture corrects the theory of success.

Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you you have omitted every word that he can spare.

Every really able man, in whatever direction he works - a man of large affairs, an inventor, a statesman, an orator, a poet, a painter - if you talk sincerely with him, considers his work, however much admired, as far short of what it should be. What is this Better, this flying Ideal, but the perpetual promise of his Creator?