In sculpture did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoon how it might be made different? A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal.

The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.

Action is with the scholar subordinate, but it is essential. Without it, he is not yet man. Without it, thought can never ripen into truth.

When you have worn out yourshoes, the strength of the shoe leather has passed into the fiber ofyour body. I measure your health by the number of shoes and hats andclothes you have worn out.

I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose.

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

For it is only the finite that has wrought and suffered; the infinite lies stretched in smiling repose.