A man who has tasted with profound enjoyment the pleasure of agreeable society will eat with a greater appetite than he who rode horseback for two hours. An amusing lecture is as useful for health as the exercise of the body.

All perception is colored by emotion.

You only know me as you see me, not as I actually am

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

Thinking in pictures precedes thinking in words.

Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

Art is purposiveness without purpose.