Do not speak of God much. After a very little conversation on the highest nature, thought deserts us and we run into formalism.

The most useful man in the most useful world, so long as only commodity was served, would remain unsatisfied. But, as fast as he sees beauty, life acquires a very high value.

Nothing is dead: men feign themselves dead, and endure mock funerals and mournful obituaries, and there they stand looking out ofthe window, sound and well, in some new and strange disguise.

There is no better way to exercise the imagination than the study of the law.

All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of man's limbs and senses.

Play out the game, act well your part, and if the gods have blundered, we will not.

An artist spends himself like the crayon in his hand, till he is all gone.