Patience is a good palfrey, and will carry us a long day.

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

Love has no thought of self! Love buys not with the ruthless usurer's gold The loathsome prostitution of a hand Without a heart! Love sacrifices all things To bless the thing it loves!

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.

There is always a moment in our lives when we are destined to fall the way we ever feared of.

It was all in my head and now all I had to do was figure out a way to get it down on paper.

Don't wait for permission to do something creative.

Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.

If thou wouldst help others deal with them as though they were what they should be

I know that when the world surrenders, pallid, to repose, the murmur of a tranquil stream through the deep silence flows.

Without craft, art remains private. Without art, craft is merely hackwork.

Servant-leader ship is all about making the goals clear and then rolling your sleeves up and doing whatever it takes to help people win. In that situation, they don't work for you, you work for them.

An artist is a person who thinks more than there is to think, feels more than there is to feel, and sees more than there is to see.

Trust God, and do the next thing.