We talk too much. We should talk less and draw more.

Who is the happiest man? He who is alive to the merit of others, and can rejoice in their enjoyment as if it were his own.

A state of true and universal tolerance is best ensured by leaving alone the peculiarities of men and peoples.

Character is constructed amidst the tempests of the World

Man can find no better retreat from the world than art, and man can find no stronger link with the world than art.

Lord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects he is a child.

The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing.