Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.

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

It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man having once shown himself capable of original writing is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.

Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.