We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments.

Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.

But dare rather to quit the platform, plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, & swim far, so shall you come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience, that shall explain & overlook the old. Trust your emotion.

A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul.

All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.

After thirty, a man wakes up sad every morning, excepting perhaps five or six, until the day of his death.

Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.