Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear.
The idea of the nest in the bird's mind, where does it come from?
Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.
What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm.
A man who shows no defect is a fool or a hypocrite, whom we should mistrust. There are defects so bound to fine qualities that they announce them,--defects which it is well not to correct.