Children can scarcely be fashioned to meet with our likes and our purpose. Just as God did us give them, so must we hold them and love them, nurture and teach them to fullness and leave them to be what they are.

A school of art or of anything else is to be looked on as a single individual, who keeps talking to himself for a hundred years, and feels an extreme satisfaction with his own circle of favorite ideas, be they ever so silly.

When two men quarrel, who owns the cooler head is the more to blame.

Noble be man, helpful and good!

Before you can do something, you must first be something.

I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it.

Whoever strenuously endeavors, him we can rescue.