Thus inevitably does the universe wear our color, and every object fall successively into the subject itself. The subject exists, the subject enlarges; all things sooner or later fall into place. As I am, so I see; use what language we will, we can never say anything but what we are.

There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

A man is a hero, not because he is braver than anyone else, but because he is brave for 10 minutes longer.

The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.

We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

The education of the will is the object of our existence.