He is the happiest man who can see the connection between the end and the beginning of life.

We are pantheists as natural scientists, polytheists as poets, and monotheists as moral beings.

If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses.

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.

To like things like, whatever one may ail; There is certain help.

True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.

People always fancy that we must become old to become wise; but, in truth, as years advance, it is hard to keep ourselves as wise as we were.