I do not like new things of any kind, not even a new gown, far less a new acquaintance, therefore make as few as possible; one can but have one's heart and hands full, and mine are. I have love and work enough to last me the rest of my life.

Avarice is to the intellect what sensuality is to the morals.

Thoughts and emotions which never perhaps were in the mind of the artist, never were anticipated, never were intended by him - may be strongly suggested by his work. This is an important part of the morals of art, which we must never lose sight of. Art is not only for pleasure and profit, but for good and for evil.

If we can still love those who have made us suffer, we love them all the more.

In the art of design, color is to form what verse is to prose,--a more harmonious and luminous vehicle of the thought.

Even virtue itself, all perfect as it is, requires to be inspirited by passion; for duties are but coldly performed which are but philosophically fulfilled.

Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.