You were made for enjoyment, and the world was filled with things which you will enjoy, unless you are too proud to be pleased with them, or too grasping to care for what you can not turn to other account than mere delight.

In my house there is no attempt whatever to secure harmonies of colour, or form, or furniture.... I am entirely independent for daily happiness upon the sensual qualities of form or colour-when I want them I take them either from the sky or from the fields.

Mighty of heart, mighty of mind, magnanimous-to be this is indeed to be great in life.

We have much studied and much perfected, of late, the great civilized invention of the division of labour; only we give it a false name. It is not, truly speaking, the labour that is divided; but the men.

I cannot but think it an evil sign of a people when their houses are built to last for one generation only.

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 distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.