The secret of success lies never in the amount of money, but in the relation of income to outgo.

It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts.

The public values the invention more than the inventor does. The inventor knows there is much more and better where this came from.

A dilettantism in nature is barren and unworthy. A fop of fields is no better than his brother on Broadway.

...as there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens, so is there no bar or wall in the soul where man, the effect, ceases, and God, the cause, begins. The walls are taken away. We lie open on one side to the deeps of spiritual nature, to the attributes of God. Justice we see and know, Love, Freedom, Power. These natures no man ever got above, but they tower over us, and most in the moment when our interests tempt us to wound them.

Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other.

"Though many painters and sculptors talk glibly of "going in for photography," you will find that very few of them can ever make a picture by photography; they lack the science, technical knowledge, and above all the practice. Most people think they can play tennis, shoot, write novels, and photograph as well as any other person - until they try."