We should seek to be fellow students with the pupil, and should learn of, as well as with him, if we would be most helpful to him.

The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard.

Man cannot afford to be a naturalist, to look at Nature directly, but only with the side of his eye. He must look through and beyond her.

Color, which is the poet's wealth, is so expensive that most take to mere outline sketches and become men of science.

You speak of poverty and dependence. Who are poor and dependent? Who are rich and independent? When was it that men agreed to respect the appearance and not the reality?

The rule is to carry as little as possible.

The first pleasant days of spring come out like a squirrel and go in again.