Genius is only a superior power of seeing.

What is really desired, under the name of riches, is essentially, power over men ... this power ... is in direct proportion to the poverty of the men over whom it is exercised, and in inverse proportion to the number of persons who are as rich as ourselves.

In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong.

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

Great art is precisely that which never was, nor will be taught, it is preeminently and finally the expression of the spirits of great men.

The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.