Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
Every artist was first an amateur.
When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors Landor replies "Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life."
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants and to serve them one's self?
Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half poss...
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
The world belongs to the energetic.
The flowering of geometry.
Hitch your wagon to a star.
Every industrious man, in every lawful calling, is a useful man. And one principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their...
For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?
We must be our own before we can be another's.
When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
The first wealth is health.
The years teach much which the days never know.