I take up my own pen again - the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles. To myself - today - I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.

An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue.

In art economy is always beauty.

Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.

The artist beholds in nature more than she herself Nature is conscious of.

I have lived too long in foreign parts

if you are going to be pushed you had better jump