One glance, one word from you gives more pleasure than all the wisdom of this world.

I hate all explanations; they who make them deceive either themselves or the other party,-generally both.

It would not be worth your while to reach the age of seventy if all the wisdom of the world were to be foolishness before God.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

What is part of you, you cannot get rid of, even if you were to throw it away.

Painting predicates what man wants to see, and what man ought to see, not what he ordinarily sees.

Rash combat oft immortalizes man; if he should fall, he is renowned in song; but after-ages reckon not the ceaseless tears which the forsaken woman sheds. Poets tell us not of the many nights consumed in weeping, or of the dreary days wherein her anguished soul vainly yearns to call her loved one back.