“I do not see in what way the face of a man should be a less interesting landscape than any other. A man, the physical person of a man, is a little world, like any other a country, with its towns, and suburbs... As a rule what is needed in a portrait is a great deal of the general, and very little of the particular.”

“The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.”

“any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man”

“If a man looks upon any other man and estimates that man as less than himself, then he is stealing from the other. He is stealing the other's birthright - that of equality.”

“Why should any man have power over any other man's faith, seeing Christ Himself is the author of it?”

“I am not a nervous man in a general way, and very little troubled with superstitions, of which I have lived to see the folly.”

“The world cares very little what you or I know, but it does care a great deal about what you or I do.”

“Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm, which seems to say, 'Yes, I am willing to attract, but to attract a little better kind of a man than any I yet behold”

“A man’s style in any art should be like his dress — it should attract as little attention as possible.”

“And she said…
"Flowers are red young man
Green leaves are green
There's no need to see flowers any other way
Than they way they always have been seen."”