Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage.

The way to learn German, is, to read the same dozen pages over and over a hundred times, till you know every word and particle in them, and can pronounce and repeat them by heart.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.

Find the journey's end in every step.

Art is evidence of our most creative moment.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

First be a good animal.