All great successes are the triumph of persistence.
What is originality? It is being one's self, and reporting accurately what we see and are.
We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.
The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.
I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our own spontaneous expression with good humored inflexibility whether the whole cry of voices is on the other side.