Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist

Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.

We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind, and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.

In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire