A king or a prince becomes by accident a part of history. A poet or an artist becomes by nature and necessity a part of universal humanity.

Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty.

Morally a woman has a right to the free and entire development of every faculty which God has given her to be improved and used to His honor. Socially she has a right to the protection of equal laws; the right to labor with her hands the thing that is good; to select the kind of labor which is in harmony with her condition and her powers; to exist, if need be, by her labor, or to profit others by it if she choose. These are her rights, not more nor less than the rights of the man.

A good taste is often unconscious; a just taste is always conscious.

The moment one begins to solder right and wrong together, one's conscience becomes like a piece of plated goods.

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.

A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.