Everything that you can see in the world around you presents itself to your eyes only as an arrangement of patches of different colors.

It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.

One evening, when I was yet in my nurse's arms, I wanted to touch the tea urn, which was boiling merrily ... My nurse would have taken me away from the urn, but my mother said "Let him touch it." So I touched it - and that was my first lesson in the meaning of liberty.

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

The constant duty of every man to his fellows is to ascertain his own powers and special gifts, and to strengthen them for the help of others.

Childhood often holds a truth with its feeble finger, which the grasp of manhood cannot retain,--which it is the pride of utmost age to recover.

Fit yourself for the best society, and then, never enter it.