The world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us.

The conservative assumes sickness as a necessity, and his social frame is a hospital, his total legislation is for the present distress, a universe in slippers and flannels, with bib and papspoon, swallowing pills and herb-tea.

Self Esteem::"It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self-centered. But the finished man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. I knew a man of simple habits and earnest character who never put out his hands nor opened his lips to court the public, and having survived several rotten reputations of younger men, honor came at last and sat down with him upon his private bench from which he had never stirred."

It is very hard to be simple enough to be good.

Every artist was first an amateur.

Thought dissolves the material universe by carrying the mind up into a sphere where all is plastic.

What is indispensable to inspiration? ...sound sleep and the provocation of a good book or a companion.