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.

New inventions can and will be made; however, nothing new can be thought of that concerns moral man. Everything has already been thought and said which at best we can express in different forms and give new expressions to.

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

Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit, thou wilt not wrest from her by levers and screws.

Don't judge anyone harshly until you yourself have been through his experiences

Colour itself is a degree of darkness.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.