The ancestor of every action is a thought.

One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive one.

All vigor is contagious.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

If you would serve your brother it is fit for you to serve him, do not take back your words when you find that prudent people do not commend you. Be true to your own act, and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotony of a decorous age.

You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.