Civilization depends on morality.

If we live truly, we shall see truly. It is as easy for the strong man to be strong, as it is for the weak to be weak.

A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature.

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich, who wants something more; that of the sick, who wants something different; and that of the traveler, who says anywhere but here.