Pleasures, riches, honor and joy are sure to have care, disgrace, adversity and affliction in their train. There is no pleasure without pain, no joy without sorrow. O the folly of expecting lasting felicity in a vale of tears, or a paradise in a ruined world.

Why should not every individual man have existed more than once upon this world? Why should I not come back as often as I am capable of acquiring fresh knowledge? Is this hypothesis so laughable merely because it is the oldest? Because the human understanding, before the sophistries of the schools had dissipated and debilitated it, lighted upon it at once?

What education is to the individual man, revelation is to the human race. Education is revelation coming to the individual man, and revelation is education that has come, and is still coming to the human race.

A man who does not lose his reason over certain things has none to lose.

The end-purpose of all art is enjoyment!

The more we see the more we must be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!