We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their sympathies

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.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

With knowledge grows doubt.

I have never looked at foreign countries or gone there but with the purpose of getting to know the general human qualities that are spread all over the earth in very different forms, and then to find these qualities again in my own country and to recognize and to further them.

In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world... how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!

What chance gathers, she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.