It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know what is good, and require it. you will aspire and burn until you achieve it. But from time to time, in history, men are born a whole age too soon.
The walking of Man is falling forwards.
I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency.
He is great who confers the most benefits.
Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you.
Every advantage has its tax.
We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.
Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion?
It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.
As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man.
The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect.
Tis the privilege of Art Thus to play its cheerful part, Man on earth to acclimate And bend the exile to his fate.
How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances.
It depends little on the object, much on the mood, in art.
The Yankee is one who, if he once gets his teeth set on a thing, all creation can’t make him let go.
The aid we can give each other is only incidental, lateral, and sympathetic.
The eye is the painter and the ear the singer.
The affections cannot keep their youth any more than men.
It is a tie between men to have read the same book.
Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub.