As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief in denying them.

Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.

Perpetual modernism is the measure of merit in every work of art.

In sculpture did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoon how it might be made different? A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal.

Spoons and skimmers you can be undistinguishably together; but vases and statues require each a pedestal for itself.