Every great man is unique.

Insist on your life, never imitate... do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.

Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.

We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner; must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience, or we shall learn nothing rightly.

A man complained that on his way home to dinner he had every day to pass through that long field of his neighbor's. I advised him to buy it, and it would never seem long again.

The rain comes when the wind calls.

Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.