Beauty is the moment of transition, as if the form were just ready to flow into other forms.

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.

So use all that is called Fortune. Most men gamble with her, and gain all, and lose all, as her wheel rolls. But do thou leave as unlawful these winnings, and deal with Cause and Effect, the Chancellors of God.

A skilful man reads his dreams for his selfknowledge; yet not the details, but the quality.

I learn immediately from any speaker how much he has already lived, through the poverty or the splendor of his speech. Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for the masonry of today. This is the way to learn grammar. Colleges and books only copy the language which the field and the work-yard made.

It is the eye which makes the horizon.

He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.