Health, south wind, books, old trees, a boat, a friend.

Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends.

Nature encourages no looseness; pardons no errors.

Practice makes perfect - the sooner you start, the sooner you will be a happy nonsmoker

If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.

I believe in Eternity. I can find Greece, Palestine, Italy, Spain, and the Islands, - the Genius and creative Principle of each and of all eras, in my own mind.

The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. . . . They look backward and not forward. But genius looks forward: the eyes of man are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates. Whatever talents may be, if the man create not, the pure efflux of the Deity is not his; - cinders and smoke there may be, but not yet flame.