The riddle of the age has for each a private solution.

When it comes to divide an estate, the politest men quarrel.

The difference between Talent and Genius is that Talent says things which he has never heard but once, and Genius things which he has never heard.

Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear.

Travel is a fools paradise.

And the glory of character is in affronting the horrors of depravity to draw thence new nobilities of power: as Art lives and thrills in new use and combining of contrasts, and mining into the dark evermore for blacker pits of night.

And striving to be Man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form.