Art trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.

The world would be better and brighter if people were taught the duty of being happy as well as the happiness of doing their duty.

Art trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.

False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own.

Do not lay things too much to heart. No one is ever really beaten unless he is discouraged.

A man who is not a good friend to himself cannot be so to any one else.

All those who love Nature she loves in return, and will richly reward, not perhaps with the good things, as they are commonly called, but with the best things of this world-not with money and titles, horses and carriages, but with bright and happy thoughts, contentment and peace of mind.