Modern education too often covers the fingers with rings, and at the same time cuts the sinews at the wrist.

Every man's follies are the caricature resemblances of his wisdom.

Faith in a better than that which appears is no less required by art than by religion.

Every fancy that we would substitute for a reality is, if we saw aright, and saw the whole, not only false, but every way less beautiful and excellent than that which we sacrifice to it.

Color, in the outward world, answers to feeling in man; shape, to thought; motion, to will. The dawn of day is the nearest outward likeness of an act of creation; and it is, therefore, also the closest type in nature for that in us which most approaches to creation--the realization of an idea by an act of the will.

Man is a substance clad in shadows.

There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies.