Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.

Do not waste a minute - not a second - in trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it.

Many persons sigh for death when it seems far off, but the inclination vanishes when the boat upsets, or the locomotive runs off the track, or the measles set it.

Genius is lonely without the surrounding presence of a people to inspire it.

Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges.

How much that the world calls selfishness is only generosity with narrow walls,--a too exclusive solicitude to maintain a wife in luxury, or make one's children rich.

What instruction the baby brings to the mother!