There is no solemnity so deep, to a right-thinking creature, as that of dawn.

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

Race is precisely of as much consequence in man as it is in any animal.

It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.

Our purity of taste is best tested by its universality, for if we can only admire this thing or that, we maybe use that our cause for liking is of a finite and false nature.

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.

All art is but dirtying the paper delicately.