It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead of his past

The sea is masculine, the type of active strength. Look, what egg-shells are drifting all over it, each one, like ours, filled with men in ecstasies of terror, alternating with cockney conceit, as the sea is rough or smooth. Is this sad-colored circle an eternal cemetery?

Writing should be the settlement of dew on the leaf.

Every really able man, in whatever direction he works - a man of large affairs, an inventor, a statesman, an orator, a poet, a painter - if you talk sincerely with him, considers his work, however much admired, as far short of what it should be. What is this Better, this flying Ideal, but the perpetual promise of his Creator?

If we live truly, we shall see truly. It is as easy for the strong man to be strong, as it is for the weak to be weak.

Congratulate yourself if you have done something strange, extravagant and broken the monotony.

Coal is a portable climate.