There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

I will be lord over myself.

A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.

When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves.

True works of art are a manifestation of the higher laws of nature.

Hell begins the day that God grants you the vision to see all that you could have done, should have done, and would have done, but did not do.

Mannerism always wants to be finished and doesn't enjoy the process. Genuine, truly great talent, however, finds its greatest satisfaction in the production.