I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.

Art is constitutive-the artist determines beauty. He does not take it over.

If youth is a fault, it is one that one gets rid of soon enough.

Of all thieves, fools are the worst; they rob you of time and temper.

Every bird has its decoy, and every man is led and misled in his own peculiar way.

It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's self too cheap.

Children can scarcely be fashioned to meet with our likes and our purpose. Just as God did us give them, so must we hold them and love them, nurture and teach them to fullness and leave them to be what they are.