To follow art for the sake of being a great man, and therefore to cast about continually for some means of achieving position or attracting admiration, is the surest way of ending in total extinction.

All really great pictures exhibit the general habits of nature, manifested in some peculiar, rare, and beautiful way.

One can't be angry when one looks at a penguin.

The question is not what man can scorn, or disparage, or find fault with, but what he can love, and value, and appreciate.

Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.

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

Mountains are to the rest of the body of the earth, what violent muscular action is to the body of man. The muscles and tendons of its anatomy are, in the mountain, brought out with force and convulsive energy, full of expression, passion, and strength.