As all Art depends on Vision, so the different kinds of Art depend on the different ways in which minds look at things.

When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling him to provoke animosity by announcing his dissent.

Heart and Brain are the two lords of life. In the metaphors of ordinary speech and in the stricter language of science, we use these terms to indicate two central powers, from which all motives radiate, to which all influences converge.

Remember that every drop of rain that falls bears into the bosom of the earth a quality of beautiful fertility.

Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.

Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength.

The real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers.