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

Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.

Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness.

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

Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will.

The ideal client is the very wealthy man in very great trouble.

Knowledge, or more expressively truth,--for knowledge is truth received into our intelligence,--truth is an ideal whole.