When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

Along the iron veins that traverse the frame of our country, beat and flow the fiery pulses of its exertion, hotter and faster every hour. All vitality is concentrated through those throbbing arteries into the central cities; the country is passed over like a green sea by narrow bridges, and we are thrown back in continually closer crowds on the city gates.

The beginning and almost the end of all good law is that everyone shall work for their bread and receive good bread for their work.

Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

You may either win your peace or buy it. Win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.

The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.

It is eminently a weariable faculty, eminently delicate, and incapable of bearing fatigue; so that if we give it too many objects at a time to employ itself upon, or very grand ones for a long time together, it fails under the effort, becomes jaded, exactly as the limbs do by bodily fatigue, and incapable of answering any farther appeal till it has had rest.