I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.

All are to be men of genius in their degree,--rivulets or rivers, it does not matter, so that the souls be clear and pure; not dead walls encompassing dead heaps of things, known and numbered, but running waters in the sweet wilderness of things unnumbered and unknown, conscious only of the living banks, on which they partly refresh and partly reflect the flowers, and so pass on.

Hope- the recognition, by true foresight, of better things to be reached here after.

The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become.

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.