Wherever there is power there is age.

Every man has a vocation. The talent is the call.

I learn immediately from any speaker how much he has already lived, through the poverty or the splendor of his speech. Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for the masonry of today. This is the way to learn grammar. Colleges and books only copy the language which the field and the work-yard made.

Art, in the artist, is proportion, or, a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving beauty in details. And the wonder and charm of it is the sanity in insanity which it denotes.

We live ruins amid ruins.

Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.

The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity