There can be no acting or doing of any kind till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done; the thing once recognized, doing in a thousand shapes becomes possible.

A pygmy standing on the outward crust of this small planet, his far-reaching spirit stretches outward to the infinite, and there alone finds rest.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Have a purpose in life, and having it, throw into your work such strength of mind and muscle as God has given you.

The all importance of clothes has sprung up in the intellect of the dandy without effort, like an instinct of genius; he is inspired with clothes, a poet of clothes.

In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing.

He who cannot withal keep his mind to himself cannot practice any considerable thing whatsoever.