We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

'Well,' said Red Jacket [to someone complaining that he had not enough time], 'I suppose you have all there is.'

Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.

Always the seer is a sayer. Somehow his dream is told; somehow he publishes it with solemn joy: sometimes with pencil on canvas, sometimes with chisel on stone, sometimes in towers and aisles of granite, his soul's worship is builded; sometimes in anthems of indefinite music, but clearest and most permanent, in words.

Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.