I look on trade and every mechanical craft as education also. But let me discriminate what is precious herein. There is in each ofthese works an act of invention, an intellectual step, or short series of steps taken; that act or step is the spiritual act; all the rest is mere repetition of the same a thousand times.

Nature and literature are subjective phenomena; every evil and every good thing is a shadow which we cast

What is there of the divine in a load of brick? What ... in a barber shop? ... Much. All.

Times of heroism are generally times of terror, but the day never shines in which this element may not work.

Everyone I meet is in some way my superior.

A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature.

Spoons and skimmers you can be undistinguishably together; but vases and statues require each a pedestal for itself.