Life always take on the character of its motive.
Artists are nearest God. Into their souls he breathes his life, and from their hands it comes in fair, articulate forms to bless the world.
Fashion is aristocratic-autocratic.
Laws are the very bulkwarks of liberty; they define every man's rights, and defend the individual liberties of all men.
He that cannot paint must grind the colors.
Fiction is most powerful when it contains most truth; and there is little truth we get so true as that which we find in fiction.