When it's dark enough men see stars.

It depends little on the object, much on the mood, in art.

If you would learn to write, it is in the street you must learn it. Both for the vehicle and for the aims of fine arts, you must frequent the public square. The people, and not the college, is the writer's home. A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light.

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

Washington, where an insignificant individual may trespass on a nation's time.

The great man is not convulsible or tormentable; events pass over him without much impression.

The secret of success lies never in the amount of money, but in the relation of income to outgo.