Contrast increases the splendor of beauty, but it disturbs its influence; it adds to its attractiveness, but diminishes its power.

You will never love art well until you love what she mirrors better.

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

No one can become rich by the efforts of only their toil, but only by the discovery of some method of taxing the labor of others.

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.

No girl who is well bred, 'kind, and modest, is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want of manners, or of heart.

Don't just look at buildings ... watch them.