What education is to the individual, revelation is to the whole human race.

The more we see the more we must be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

Where wildness and disorder are visible in the dance, there Satan, death and all kinds of mischief are likewise upon the floor. For this reason I could wish that the dance of death were painted on the walls of all ball-rooms in order to warn the dancers, not by the levity of their deportment, to provoke the God of righteousness to visit them with a sudden judgment.

I know not whether there exists such a thing as a coin stamped with a pair of pinions; but I wish this were the device which monarchs put upon their dollars and ducats, to show that riches make to themselves wings, and fly away.

Nature intended that woman should be her masterpiece.

Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!

Yesterday I lived, today I suffer, tomorrow I die; but I still think fondly, today and tomorrow, of yesterday.