A man is not little when he finds it difficult to cope with circumstances, but when circumstances overmaster him.

No limit, no definition, may restrict the range or depth of the human spirit's passage into its own secrets or the world's.

Analysis and synthesis are both as necessary to the thinking spirit as inspiration and expiration to the organism.

Art is a severe business; most serious when employed in grand and sacred objects. The artist stands higher than art, higher than the object. He uses art for his purposes, and deals with the object after his own fashion.

Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome. Every beginning is cheerful: the threshold is the place of expectation.

Ah! my poor brain is racked and crazed, My spirit and senses amazed!

We rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance.