» There's a blush for won t, and a blush for shan't, and a blush for having done it: There's a blush for thought and a blush for naught, and a blush for just begun it.
» The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.
» Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.
» I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.
» Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.
» I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
» There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.
» Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous -- who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves?
» The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children. The mighty abstract idea I have of beauty in all things stifles the more divided and minute domestic happiness.
» I always made an awkward bow.