The soul is the perceiver and the revealer of truth.

The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.

Do your work, but do your thing.

The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.

Men of extraordinary success, in their honest moments, have always sung, "Not unto us, not unto us." According to the faith of their times, they have built altars to Fortune, or to Destiny, or to St. Julian. Their success lay in their parallelism to the course of thought, which found in them an unobstructed channel; and the wonders of which they were the visible conductors seemed to their eye their deed.

Oh, be my friend, and teach me to be thine!

That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.