That is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual; the wise man wonders at the usual.

Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow

In our fine arts, not imitation, but creation is the aim... The details, the prose of nature, he should omit, and give us only the spirit and splendour.

A beautiful person among the Greeks, was thought to betray by this sign some secret favor of the immortal gods; and we can pardonpride, when a woman possesses such a figure that wherever she stands, or moves, or leaves a shadow on the wall, or sits for a portrait to the artist, she confers a favor on the world.

We are amphibious creatures, weaponed for two elements, having two sets of faculties, the particular and the catholic.

Success to the strongest, who are always, at last, the wisest and best.

Popularity is for dolls.