What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

It is natural to man to regard himself as the object of the creation, and to think of all things in relation to himself, and the degree in which they can serve and be useful to him.

Action has magic, grace and power in it.

A talent can be cultivated in tranquility; a character only in the rushing stream of life.

One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is the intermixing of different genres.

Reality surpasses imagination; and we see, breathing, brightening, and moving before our eyes sights dearer to our hearts than any we ever beheld in the land of sleep.

The older I get the more I trust in the law according to which the rose and the lily bloom.