We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.
All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.
A man’s style is his mind’s voice. Wooden minds, wooden voices.
Life is short, but there is always time for courtesy.
The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem. Every new relationship is a new word.
The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one.
The best efforts of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
The key to every man is his thought. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.
Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.
Great people are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
Life too near paralyses art.
Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience.
Culture is one thing and varnish is another.
There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.
There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.
Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring.
Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
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