No picture of life can have any veracity that does not admit the odious facts. A man's power is hooped in by a necessity, which, by many experiments, he touches on every side, until he learns its arc.

Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyph to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life before he apprehends it as truth.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

Our strength grows out of our weakness.

The man for whom the law exists - the man of forms, the conservative - is a tame man.

The imaginative faculty of the soul must be fed with objects immense and eternal.

All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man has taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.