“Every writer dips his brush into his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.”

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

“Every artist dips his brush into his own soul.”

“If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.”

“A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is a wrong to his family. He cheats them! Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it.”

“No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is in the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has”

“No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.”