Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Things bring their own philosophy with them, that is, prudence.

These arts open great gates of a future, promising to make the world plastic and to lift human life out of its beggary to a god- like ease and power.

But the mark of American merit in painting, in sculpture, in poetry, in fiction, in eloquence, seems to be a certain grace withoutgrandeur, and itself not new but derivative; a vase of fair outline, but empty,--which whoso sees, may fill with what wit and character is in him, but which does not, like the charged cloud, overflow with terrible beauty, and emit lightnings on all beholders.

In the Greek cities, it was reckoned profane, that any person should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged to all who could behold it.

God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear this morning brings The outrage of the poor.

Success goes thus invariably with a certain plus or positive power: an ounce of power must balance an ounce of weight.