Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Strength is a matter of the made-up mind.
Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.
The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a ut"". "
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.