Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action.
Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?
One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.
All writing comes by the grace of God.
Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you you have omitted every word that he can spare.
The language of the street is always strong.
So in writing, there is always a right word, and every other than that is wrong. There is no beauty in words except in their collocation. The effect of a fanciful word misplaced, is like that of a horn of exquisite polish growing on a human head.
For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?
Power dwells with cheerfulness.
He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread.
I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.
Many photographers think they are photographing nature when they are only caricaturing her.
Government has been a fossil: it should be a plant.
Nature is saturated with Deity.
Nature is a rag-merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations; like a good chemist, whom I found, the other day, in his laboratory, converting his old shirts into pure white sugar.
Power is in nature the essential measure of right.
Nature is a tropical swamp in sunshine, on whose purlieus we hear the song of summer birds, and see prismatic dewdrops, – but her interiors are terrific, full of hydras and crocodiles.
At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and foolish.
Excellence is the new forever.
All great successes are the triumph of persistence.