We owe to genius always the same debt, of lifting the curtain from the common, and showing us that divinities are sitting disguised in the seeming gang of gypsies and peddlars.

I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. The soul always hears an admonition in such lines, let the subject be what it may. The sentiment they instil is of more value than any thought they may contain. To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, - that is genius.

The State is our neighbors; our neighbors are the State.

Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter. That the world is for his education is the only sane solution of the enigma.

To be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false,--this is the mark and character of intelligence.

First be a good animal.

I look on Sculpture as history. I do not think the Apollo and the Jove impossible in flesh and blood. Every trait the artist recorded in stone, he had seen in life, and better than his copy.