If we tire of the saints, Shakspeare is our city of refuge.

The man for whom the law exists - the man of forms, the conservative - is a tame man.

Painting seems to be to the eye what dancing is to the limbs. When that has educated the frame to self-possession, to nimbleness,to grace, the steps of the dancing-master are better forgotten; so painting teaches me the splendor of color and the expression of form, and as I see many pictures and higher genius in the art, I see the boundless opulence of the pencil, the indifferency in which the artist stands free to choose out of the possible forms.

We denote this primary wisdom as Intuition, whilst all later teachings are tuitions.

When you have worn out yourshoes, the strength of the shoe leather has passed into the fiber ofyour body. I measure your health by the number of shoes and hats andclothes you have worn out.

Be a football to Time and Chance, the more kicks, the better, so that you inspect the whole game and know its utmost law.

Our friends early appear to us as representatives of certain ideas, which they never pass or exceed. They stand on the brink of the ocean of thought and power, but they never take a single step that would bring them there.