What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination; and third, their industry.

All travelling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity.

Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

Why is one man richer than another? Because he is more industrious, more persevering and more sagacious.

Genius is only a superior power of seeing.

I believe the first test of a truly great man is his humility.

Quality is never an accident it is always the result of intelligent effort.

We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our heart.

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, and snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.