Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

Let no one be like another, yet everyone like the highest. How is this done? Be each one perfect in himself.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

Every decided colour does a certain violence to the eye, and forces the organ to opposition.

Thank God when He lays a burden on thee, and thank Him when He takes it off.

Whatever Nature undertakes, she can only accomplish it in a sequence. She never makes a leap.

Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.