If you would learn to write, it is in the street you must learn it. Both for the vehicle and for the aims of fine arts, you must frequent the public square. The people, and not the college, is the writer's home. A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light.

The terrors of the child are quite reasonable, and add to his loveliness; for his utter ignorance and weakness, and his enchanting indignation on such a small basis of capital compel every bystander to take his part.

Action is the process whereby what is not fully formed passes into expressive consciousness.

The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man.

It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts.

The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.

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.