For whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowledge is the image of existence, and things mean and splendid exist alike.

Money is a great treasure that only increases as you give it away.

Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas.

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

Every person born in the USA is endowed with life, liberty, and a substantial share of the national debt.

Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.

The men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes the middle course, it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.