We surround ourselves with the true image of ourselves.

Do what you're afraid to do.

Everything in our world, even a drop of dew, is a microcosm of the universe.

Art should exhilarate, and throw down the walls of circumstance on every side, awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal relation and power which the work evinced in the artist.

The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires.

All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal.

There is no better way to exercise the imagination than the study of the law.