The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.
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.
A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
Only so much of life do I know as I have lived.
Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
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