You must let go of a thing for a new one to come to you.

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.

There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed

Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations. The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him.

Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper.