Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.

If I were to choose among all gifts and qualities that which, on the whole, makes life pleasantest, I should select the love of children. No circumstance can render this world wholly a solitude to one who has this possession

Life is as inexorable as the sea.

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.

That genius is feeble which cannot hold its own before the masterpieces of the world.

Character shows itself apart from genius as a special thing. The first point of measurement of any man is that of quality.

To be really cosmopolitan a man must be at home even in his own country.