In order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

It is a matter of the simplest demonstration, that no man can be really appreciated but by his equal or superior.

In order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

A forest of all manner of trees is poor, if not disagreeable, in effect; a mass of one species of tree is sublime.

This is the true nature of home - it is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from all injury, but from all terror, doubt, and division.

Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

The whole difference between a man of genius and other men, it has been said a thousand times, and most truly, is that the first remains in great part a child, seeing with the large eyes of children, in perpetual wonder, not conscious of much knowledge--conscious, rather of infinite ignorance, and yet infinite power; a fountain of eternal admiration, delight, and creative force within him meeting the ocean of visible and governable things around him.