Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Your work should be in praise of what you love.

The difference between talent and genius is in the direction of the current: in genius, it is from within outward; in talent from without inward.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.

Man was born to be rich, or to inevitably grow rich, by the use of his faculties: by the union of thought with nature.