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

The most active lives have so much routine as to preclude progress almost equally with the most inactive.

By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great.

Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub.

But the mark of American merit in painting, in sculpture, in poetry, in fiction, in eloquence, seems to be a certain grace withoutgrandeur, and itself not new but derivative; a vase of fair outline, but empty,--which whoso sees, may fill with what wit and character is in him, but which does not, like the charged cloud, overflow with terrible beauty, and emit lightnings on all beholders.

A good indignation makes an excellent speech.

The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going