True happiness springs from moderation.

Painting predicates what man wants to see, and what man ought to see, not what he ordinarily sees.

It is not enough to take steps which may someday lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise.

Everyone is deceived in his hopes, cheated in his expectations.

Mankind? That is an abstraction. There have always been and always will be only individuals.

Moral epochs have their course as well as the seasons. We can no more hold them fast than we can hold sun, moon, and stars. Our faults perpetually return upon us; and herein lies the subtlest difficulty of self-knowledge.

The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.