But in every constitution some large degree of animal vigor is necessary as material foundation for the higher qualities of the art.

Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

A gentleman makes no noise; a lady is serene.

I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.

If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if he has a headache.

A breath of will blows eternally through the universe of souls in the direction of Right and Necessity. It is the air which all intellects inhale and exhale, and it is the wind which blows the worlds into order and orbit.

A man should give us a sense of mass.