Every man is not so much a workman in the world as he is a suggestion of that he should be. Men walk as prophecies of the next age.

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.

Good thoughts are no better than good dreams if you don't follow through.

Let not the author eat up the man, so that he shall be all balcony and no house.

True wit never made us laugh.

Perpetual modernism is the measure of merit in every work of art.