If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man.

Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.

Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

In ourselves are triumph and defeat.

Write on your doors the saying wise and old. ''Be bold!'' and everywhere -- ''Be bold; Be not too bold!'' Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

All the means of action -- the shapeless masses -- the materials -- lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.''