The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it, because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator, something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's.

Sanity is very rare every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness.

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

A great man stands on God. A small man stands on a great man.

There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all parts, that is, the poet.

Trust men and they will be true to you treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.