Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.

Don't make a novel to establish a principle of political economy. You will spoil both.

The proof of a high education is the ability to speak about complex matters as simply as possible.

This immediate dependence of language upon nature, this conversion of an outward phenomenon into a type of somewhat in human life,never loses its power to affect us. It is this which gives that piquancy to the conversation of a strong-natured farmer or backwoodsman, which all men relish.

Life is to be lived, not controlled.

We must learn the language of facts. The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses.

Teach the children! It is painting in fresco.