Many young painters would never have taken their pencils in hand if they could have felt, known, and understood, early enough, what really produced a master like Raphael.

Whatever you can do or dream, begin it.

None are so hopelessly enslaved, as those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept from the depth of their minds by masters who rule them with lies. They feed them on falsehoods till wrong looks like right in their eyes.

Judge a man's character by what he finds ridiculous.

Error is to truth as sleep is to waking. I have observed that one turns, as if refreshed, from error back to truth.

The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims.

Nothing is worth more than this day.