I was oppressed with the sensations I then felt; I sunk under the weight of them.

And I like those authors best whose scenes describe my own situation in life-- and the friends who are about me whose stories touch me with interest, from resembling my own homely existence.

All theory, my friend, is grey, But green is life's glad golden tree.

The follies of the wise man are known to himself, but hidden from the world.

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is the intermixing of different genres.

In art it's not the thinking that does the job, but making.