Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity.
To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.
You may sell your work, but not your soul.
Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him.
No picture can be good which deceives by its imitation, for the very reason that nothing can be beautiful which is not true.
Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.