Imagination is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by sharing the path, or circuits of things through forms, and so making them...
The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.
Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
Live wastes itself while we are preparing to live.
Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe?
Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.
To be simple is to be great.
Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
The greatest man in history was the poorest.
There are people who have an appetite for grief pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread natures so doomed that no prospe...
He is only rich who owns the day. There is no king rich man fairy or demon who possesses such power as that.
Poverty Frost Famine Rain Disease are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.
A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.
Man is a piece of the universe made alive.
Work and acquire and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance.
You have first an instinct then an opinion then a knowledge as the plant has root bud and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end though you can render no reason.
Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men or they are no better than dreams.