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.

Compliments are only lies in court clothes.

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

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.

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.