Truth Is The Nursing Mother Of Genius.

We Need To Hear The Excuses Men Make To Themselves For Their Worthlessness.

A Great Work Of Art Demands A Great Thought Or A Thought Of Beauty Adequately Expressed. - Neither In Art Nor Literature More Than In Life Can An Ordinary Thought Be Made Interesting Because Well-dressed.

I Fear I Have Not One Good Word To Say This Fair Morning, Though The Sun Shines So Encouragingly On The Distant Hills And Gentle River And The Trees Are In Their Festive Hues. I Am Not Festive, Though Contented. When Obliged To Give Myself To The Prose Of Life, As I Am On This Occasion Of Being Established In A New Home I Like To Do The Thing, Wholly And Quite, - To Weave My Web For The Day Solely From The Grey Yarn.

Beware The Mediocrity That Threatens Middle Age, Its Limitation Of Thought And Interest, Its Dullness Of Fancy, Its Too External Life, And Mental Thinness.

I Am Suffocated And Lost When I Have Not The Bright Feeling Of Progression.