Great passions are for the great of soul, and great events can be seen only by those who are on a level with them

sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it

There is nothing that art cannot express.

If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.

People seldom tell the truths that are worth telling. We ought to choose our truths as carefully as we choose our lies and to select our virtues with as much thought as we bestow upon the selection of our enemies.

Art persists, it timelessly continues.

There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America. It was not until I had seen the water-works at Chicago that I realised the wonders of machinery; the rise and fall of the steel rods, the symmetrical motion of the great wheels is the most beautiful rhythmic thing I have ever seen.