I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot.
We all need someone who can help us do what we already can.
People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.
Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action.
Accept your genius and say what you think.
The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings
What I need is someone who will make me do what I can.
You do not get power so that you can go out and do things, you go out and do things and you will get the power
Life is a festival only to the wise.
Make yourself necessary to somebody.
Society is infected with rude, cynical, restless, and frivolous persons who prey upon the rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated into good manners, forms accepted by the sense of all, can reach; the contradictors and railers at public and private tables, who are like terriers, who conceive it the duty of a dog of honor to growl at any passer-by, and do the honors of the house by barking him out of sight.
As to methods, there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods.
The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.
Stand guard at the portal of your mind.
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.
Fate is unpenetrated causes.
The education of the will is the object of our existence.
Every great man is unique.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but only retire a little from sight and afterward return again.
Sorrow makes us all children again.
Sorrow makes us all children again - destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing.
The force of character is cumulative.
The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.
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