Books will speak plain when counselors blanch.

The colors that show best by candlelight are white, carnation, and a kind of sea-water green.

Mark what a generosity and courage (a dog) will put on when he finds himself maintained by a man, who to him is instead of a God

Lukewarm persons think they may accommodate points of religion by middle ways and witty reconcilements,--as if they would make an arbitrament between God and man.

I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself.

Brutes by their natural instinct have produced many discoveries, whereas men by discussion and the conclusions of reason have given birth to few or none.

If I sit and daydream, the images rush by like a succession of colored slides.