What is originality? It is being one's self, and reporting accurately what we see and are.

The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours, with music and banner and badge.

Drive out Nature with a fork, she comes running back.

How many attractions for us have our passing fellows in the streets, both male and female, which our ethics forbid us to express, which yet infuse so much pleasure into life. A lovely child, a handsome youth, a beautiful girl, a heroic man, a maternal woman, a venerable old man, charm us, though strangers, and we cannot say so, or look at them but for a moment.

Among the map makers of each generation are the risk takers, those who see the opportunities, seize the moment and expand man's vision of the future

Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. Christian Bovee A little praise Goes a great ways.

The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast.