Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who posses it

Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.

Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made and forgot to put a soul into

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.

The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading