Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west.

Don't trust children with edge tools. Don't trust man, great God, with more power than he has until he has learned to use that little better. What a hell we should make of the world if we could do what we would!

Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints.

Art is the need to create; but in its essence, immense and universal, it is impatient of working with lame or tied hands, and of making cripples and monsters, such as all pictures and statues are. Nothing less than the creation of man and nature is its end.

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

Everything good is on the highway.

In England every man you meet is some man's son; in America, he may be some man's father.