Quotes by Author

Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends.

If one way be better than another,
that you may be sure is Nature's way.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

Quality is not an act, it's a habit.

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.