Practice radical humility." He (or she)who masters the art of humility cannot be humiliated.

Love is our highest word and the synonym of God.

In sculpture did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoon how it might be made different? A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal.

Society is the stage on which manners are shown; novels are the literature. Novels are the journal or record of manners; and the new importance of these books derives from the fact, that the novelist begins to penetrate the surface, and treat this part of life more worthily.

What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.

The hero sees that the event is ancillary: it must follow him.

Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.