A determined man, by his very attitude and the tone of his voice, puts a stop to defeat, and begins to conquer.

Each moment of the year has its own beauty.

The divine gift is ever the instant life, which receives and uses and creates, and can well bury the old in the omnipotency with which Nature decomposes all her harvest for recomposition.

It is vain to keep a secret from one who has a right to know it. It will tell itself.

There is no doctrine of the Reason which will bear to be taught by the Understanding.

The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.

The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.