The masses have no habit of self-reliance or original action.
Wherever work is done, victory is attained.
Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.
If you are wise, you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with more.
Let us not forget the genial miraculous force we have known to proceed from a book.
We expect a great man to be a good reader.
We walk alone in the world.
The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade.
The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet.
Yet these uneasy pleasures and fine pains are for curiosity, and not for life.
All the great ages have been ages of belief.
Every opinion reacts on him who utters it.
The best bribe which London offers to-day to the imagination, is, that, in such a vast variety of people and conditions, one can believe there is room for persons of romantic character to exist, and that the poet, the mystic, and the hero may hope to confront their counterparts.
Pay no heed to the average photographer’s remarks upon “flat” and “weak” negatives. Probably he is flat, weak, stale, and unprofitable; your negative may be first-rate, and probably is if he does not approve of it.
Artists must be sacrificed to their art.
Perhaps love is only the highest symbol of friendship, as all other things seem symbols of love.
The first lesson of history is that evil is good.
The effect of the indulgence of human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.
Action is the process whereby what is not fully formed passes into expressive consciousness.
The last change in our point of view gives the whole world a pictorial air.