Beauty brings its own fancy price, for all that a man hath will he give for his love.

The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the country turns out.

Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.

The universe does not jest with us, but is in earnest.

Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.

All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman; straightway all their past words and actions lie in light before us.

There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination.