“Every artist was first an amateur.”

“Nothing in nature is exhausted in its first use...In God, every end is converted into a new means.”

“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.”

“The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.”

“What is the scholar, what is the man for, but for hospitality to every new thought of his time? Have you leisure, power, property, friends? you shall be the asylum and patron of every new thought, every unproven opinion, every untried project, which proceeds out of good will and honest seeking. All the newspapers, all the tongues of to-day will of course at first defame what is noble; but you who hold not of to-day, not of the times, but of the Everlasting, are to stand for it: and the highest compliment, man ever receives from heaven, is the sending to him its disguised and discredited angels.”

“Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.”

“Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors. ”