All I know is reception; I am and I have: but I do not get, and when I fancied I had gotten anything, I found I did not.

The borrowing is often honest enough, and comes of magnanimity and stoutness. A great man quotes bravely and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word as good.

The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor.

He is the rich man in whom the people are rich, and he is the poor man in whom the people are poor; and how to give access to themasterpieces of art and nature, is the problem of civilization.

When he has seen, that it is not his, nor any man's, but it is the soul which made the world, and that it is all accessible to him, he will know that he, as its minister, may rightfully hold all things subordinate and answerable to it.

Always maintain your common sense and artful skills, and funnel it all into plain enough dealings.

Talents differ; all is well and wisely put; If I cannot carry forests on my back, Neither can you crack a nut.