When we talk of leaving our childhood behind us, we might as well say that the river flowing onward to the sea had left the fountain behind.

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

There are no such self-deceivers as those who think they reason when they only feel.

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other minds, and not for his own.

Social opinion is like a sharp knife. There are foolish people who regard it only with terror, and dare not touch or meddle with it. There are more foolish people, who, in rashness or defiance, seize it by the blade, and get cut and mangled for their pains. And there are wise people, who grasp it discreetly and boldly by the handle, and use it to carve out their own purposes.

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