The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
We all need someone who can help us do what we already can.
Persons are fine things, but they cost so much! for thee I must pay me.
Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative. Afterwards, it may warm itself until it exhales symbols of every kind and color, speaks only through the most poetic forms; but first and last, it must still be at bottom a biblical statement of fact.
No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.
The difference between Talent and Genius is that Talent says things which he has never heard but once, and Genius things which he has never heard.