Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

It has been the office of art to educate the perception of beauty. We are immersed in beauty but our eyes have no clear vision.

People forget that it is the eye which makes the horizon, and the rounding mind's eye which makes this or that man a type or representative of humanity with the name of hero or saint.

The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

Every man has a choice between love of truth and love of repose. Love of repose brings him a solid reputation and peaceful life; love of truth keeps him in suspense. A man who loves truth respects the highest law of his being.

A garden is like those pernicious machineries which catch a man's coat-skirt or his hand, and draw in his arm, his leg , and his whole body to irresistible destruction.

People who wash much have a high mind about it, and talk down to those who wash little.