A man's fortunes are the fruit of his character. A man's friends are his magnetisms.

For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?

A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches.

The cure for false theology is motherwit. Forget your books and traditions, and obey your moral perceptions at this hour.

Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

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.